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Karl Marx's London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack
The Guardian ^ | 05 Feb 2019 | Matthew Weaver

Posted on 02/05/2019 9:21:53 AM PST by rjsimmon

Friends of Highgate Cemetery calls attack a ‘particularly inarticulate form of political comment’

The tomb of Karl Marx at London’s Highgate cemetery has been vandalised in a targeted attack that means the Grade I-listed monument will “never be the same again”.

The suspected vandal damaged a marble plaque which was taken from Marx’s original 1881 gravestone and incorporated into the 1954 monument.

Images of the defaced memorial, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year, show what appears to be damage done by a hammer to the lettering of Marx’s name and the marble on which it is mounted.

Ian Dungavell, the chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, condemned the attack as “an appalling thing to do” and a “particularly inarticulate form of political comment”, warning that the tomb would be permanently scarred.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: communism; engels; genocide; hegel; highgatecemetery; karlmarx; london; marx; marxism; socialims; socialism
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To: marktwain

Hammer Time!!


21 posted on 02/05/2019 9:47:28 AM PST by Gasshog
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To: rjsimmon

Someone should pour 10,000 gallons of sulphuric acid over his grave, to wipe away any trace of that utter scumbag. How many people have been murdered because of his ideas, 100 million? More? Billions have been enslaved, and the utter misery that has been unleashed on the world because of HIM is incalculable.

Too bad that I couldn’t have done this - I would if I could.


22 posted on 02/05/2019 9:48:08 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: rjsimmon

To paraphrase from Marx, the “vandal” did it “from each according to his means”. :)


23 posted on 02/05/2019 9:49:42 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: gibsonguy

I remember last year, there were celebrations of the 200 year anniversary of Marx’s birth. As if Marx contributed so much to civilization and deserved to be honored as some great icon.


24 posted on 02/05/2019 9:51:00 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Justa
The local PD got tired of people stealing Ed Gein's headstone. Not to mention "chips" from it, speaking of hammers, or whatever.

They just keep it in storage as "recovered property", last I heard.

25 posted on 02/05/2019 9:57:47 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: rjsimmon

Things I hate:

1. Malicious Destruction of property.
2. Socialism by all means.
3. Irony


26 posted on 02/05/2019 9:58:27 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: rjsimmon

The left needs to take note it’s an Oman.


28 posted on 02/05/2019 10:03:11 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: rjsimmon
Unpopular comment forthwith.

A historical object that brought tourists to the cemetery. Marx was sought by authorities in his native Germany. He fled to Belgium, then France. Still he feared arrest. He arrived in London, England. Marx had said the proletariat (workers) would someday turn on their oppressors and rule.

Marx then said that Gt. Britain did not need a workers revolution. He said the parliamentary system guaranteed the workers could eventually rule. Sixty years later the Labour Government was given a mandate to rule 1945.Former working class persons were given high office. In 1951 the Conservatives were re elected.

As a working class person in England at the time, I remembered this. That the newly elected former workers then sent their offspring to the elite universities. They had promised to end tax payer funded Universities. They upgraded their residences. They gained entry to a circle of the formerly despised clubs and upper crust elite.

Human nature the same today, here and over there.

29 posted on 02/05/2019 10:08:44 AM PST by Peter Libra
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To: rjsimmon

No sickle?

Please note the crybaby self-righteous trustee. “Appalling”, “no way to treat a (historical) monument”, “selfish”, “inarticulate...protest”.

Look, I’m a great proponent of burial sites. But there are limits. A few really don’t deserve @#$!. Should’ve been cremated so we can be done with it. At least Hitler ended up this way. Plus this had to be made into a “monument”.

Spit upon your grave.


30 posted on 02/05/2019 10:10:22 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: rjsimmon

If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning...


31 posted on 02/05/2019 10:11:34 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: rjsimmon

Rimshot! Damn...had I known Marx was buried in London I would’ve watered the flowers when I use to hang there!


32 posted on 02/05/2019 10:14:03 AM PST by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: rjsimmon

sad that it has been able to exist at all in the West.


33 posted on 02/05/2019 10:14:20 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Peter Libra

Thank you for sharing your excellent perspective.


34 posted on 02/05/2019 10:19:10 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rjsimmon

Generally, I don’t support smashing public memorials.....

sometimes I find myself making an exception


35 posted on 02/05/2019 10:20:15 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: wardaddy

ba ha ha

A few years ago I did that photo to the new york times building in NYC and sent it around to all my friends, with much glee


36 posted on 02/05/2019 10:21:38 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: rjsimmon

A hammer? That’s it?

If there was any justice in this world, Marx’s corpse would be exhumed and put on display for abuse and mocking.

After a few years of abuse, then whatever remained of the bones would be loaded onto a rocket and launched into the sun.


37 posted on 02/05/2019 10:24:26 AM PST by bkopto
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To: gibsonguy

Expect Nan to have his remains and whatever to be enshrined in the DNC headquarters.


38 posted on 02/05/2019 10:26:36 AM PST by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: rjsimmon
People here are using the same justification for destruction that American liberals use to tear down statues of confederate generals and slave owners.

Acknowledging the dark path Karl Marx created, it's still a bad path to support this sort of destruction as political statement. We're not very far from muslims blowing up Buddha statues at this point.

Leave the historic detritus where it lies, and use it as a teaching tool.

39 posted on 02/05/2019 10:29:29 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: rjsimmon

No pee pee?


40 posted on 02/05/2019 10:35:32 AM PST by albie
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