Karl Marx's London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack

The Guardian ^ | 05 Feb 2019 | Matthew Weaver

[RegulatorCountry]

Wow is that the best they could do for a bust? Looks like a giant benighted Ewok.

[BBB333]

With just a bit of modification it could easily be turned into a — just deserved — urinal.

What’s the big deal?

[Peter Libra]

Thank you for your kind remark.

George Orwell was determined to really find out how the working class really lived. He, low on funds, beat his way up to impoverished Northern England in the 1930's. His classic book was titled "The Road to Wigan Pier". It was a working jetty. A sarcastic remark made by persons when asked "where do you go for your holidays?"- Wigan Pier.

To his chagrin he noted that some of those who championed the cause of the poor got elected to council. The first thing they did when they got extra monies was to put lace curtains in their windows. Orwell wrote that they considered themselves now "middle class". He was not impressed.

Hope my rambles do get excused here.

[Boogieman]

Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.

[bgill]

Oh, those out of control hammers.

[Slyfox]

But alas, he lives on ...

[robowombat]

Back in the 1960’s someone(s) covered the monument with red paint to make a statement that ‘Red’ meaning what Carlo Baby preached meant ‘Dead’ as in the tens of millions killed by communist and other ‘leftist’ genocidalists.

[trisham]

My pleasure. I’m a fan of Orwell too.

[thoughtomator]

were it up to me his grave would be a public toilet in a refugee pre-deportation holding facility

[353FMG]

It’s time to hammer that wench before she does her damage.

[Maskot]

This is fabulous! Hopefully we patriots can smash Marx’s ideological followers until they will never be the same! Rhetorically speaking, of course......cough*...*cough*...

[Maskot]

Prolly called him bad names and strung a rope around his neck too!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Marx had plenty of marble he wasn’t using. Someone else needed that marble. Wouldn’t Marx have approved this redistribution of resources?

[Chode]

why is it buried in England?

[jjotto]

Because he lived there.

[Lurker]

Do it again.

Harder.

L

[Lurker]

“Human nature the same today, here and over there.”

Times change.

People don’t.

L

[Texas resident]

Were the vandals were eating pop sickles?

Was it an assault hammer?

Will M C Hammer be triggered over this?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Chode]

so Russia dint want their favorite son returned to the Rodina...

[jjotto]

Marx thought Russians were irredeemably backwards, and certainly never visited Russia. Spent the last 30+ years of his life in London.