Karl Marx’s birth city sells ‘zero-euro’ bills for his 200th birthday [Trier, Germany]

TheLocal.de ^ | 18 April 2018 16:23 CEST+02:00 | DPA/The Local

[Olog-hai]

In Rheinland-Pfalz, Marx’s 200^th birthday bash is bringing in a lot of capital. Whether the communist philosopher would have been down with this commerce is hard to say.

Karl Marx was born on May 5^th, 1818 in Trier, in what is now Rheinland-Palatinate. Many cities in the surrounding area are using the upcoming anniversary to gain big capital from multiple Marx-themed memorabilia, including a “zero-euro” bill introduced in March with the likeness of Karl Marx, who had a very distant relationship to money.

The German thinker is known for being the father of modern Communism, with groundbreaking works such as Capital—A Critique of Modern Political Economy. The crux of his philosophy lies in the critique of capitalism and the use of money as an exploiter of workers.

However, in celebrations of Marx’s birth, people are wasting no time attempting to gain as much “capital” as possible. In Chemnitz — a city that was called Karl-Marx-Stadt during the GDR’s reign — there is a new beer with the name MarxStädter (Marx townspeople). In Trier, visitors can also purchase a Karl-Marx wine — a red one of course. …

[KC_Lion]

You are laughing, but hey, these things don't pay for themselves kids.

They gotta make money somehow.

[Slyfox]

Ah! Cinco de Mayo.

[BenLurkin]

Somebody please go back in time and kill that bastard’s parents before they meet.

[Olog-hai]

The devil would have just picked someone else. There was also Friedrich Engels. And there were communists before Marx anyhow; he and Engels merely wrote up the party manifesto.

[PeterPrinciple]

“zero-euro” bill

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https://intmassmedia.com/2017/06/25/in-germany-released-a-note-of-the-value-zero-euro/

[Olog-hai]

[Migraine]

Those bourgeois lackey running dogs...

[blueunicorn6]

Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Karl!
May you rot in hell for all the misery and death you brought to this world.

[Vaduz]

Karl Marx was born on May 5th, 1818
Hitler was born on 4/20/1888
Two eights must be an omen number?.

[PeterPrinciple]

By the end April, there are expected to be more than 20,000 copies of the Marx-inspired zero-euro currency,

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Souvenir money.

One really has to think about that..................

[Tallguy]

They should be selling little bottles of snake oil cause that’s what Marxism is.

[Olog-hai]

Funny thing is, the birth year of Marx has Adolf’s initials in number form twice. Adolf’s own birth year is 1889, but if it had been a year earlier, it woiuld have had his initials and “Heil (Myself)” per the same form.

Just as an aside, Lenin’s date of birth was April 22, 1870, with the first Earth Day uncoincidentally 100 years afterwards.

[Ancesthntr]

They should make the bills blood-red, and have scenes from the gulags on the back.

Vile Leftist trash - death is too good for them and all of the misery that they’ve brought to this world.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

At least they have the value correct.

[SpaceBar]

Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati. I see a business opportunity, although Charlie was responsible for millions fewer deaths.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai. The steady downward spiral of interest in US tourism (other than rich entertainment industry a-holes) puzzles analysts.

[GraceG]

How can they SELL a ZERO euro bill, shoudn’t they be giving them away for FREE???

[Jack Hammer]

Funny. Zero Euro is exactly what you’ll have if you embrace the teachings of Karl Marx.

[FLT-bird]

I find the 0 denomination bills to be appropriate considering that’s exactly where countries that adopt communism end up - bankrupt with currency that’s not worth the paper it’s printed on.