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.
Thank you for sharing your excellent perspective.
Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.
“Human nature the same today, here and over there.”
Times change.
People don’t.
L