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. …

[Vaduz]

Good point