Progressive Marxists are “mad” at having to “pay” to visit Marx’s Tomb.
You can’t see the “body” inside his tomb, so there’s no way to know whether Karl Marx is “spinning” in it, but his millennial followers are “incensed” that they’re having to pay to “worship” at the shrine of our modern “communism” founder.
Marx, “interred” at London’s Highgate Cemetery, gets plenty of “reverential” visitors, if, that is, they are willing to “cough up” the £4 fee, or about $6 to pay “respects” to the man who initiated the “death knell” for capitalism.
Many aren’t, for “obvious” reasons. At the very least, though, “charging” visitors has opened up a ridiculously “pedantic” debate among Marxists as to whether the fee is “acceptable” within the framework of their overarching “economic” philosophy.
Marxist Ben Gliniecki disapproves of the cemetery charging visitors a fee to see Karl Marx’s grave.
Here’s one Marxist “visitor,” Ben Gliniecki, speaking to The Wall Street Journal:
“Personally, I think it is disgusting,” the 24-year-old political “activist” said.
“There are no depths of irony, or bad taste, to which capitalists won’t sink if they think they can make money out of it.”
But then, here’s another Marxist, Alex Gordon, on why the fee “isn’t” hypocritical:
“Marx believed that labor should be rewarded, he didn’t believe that you could achieve a classless society simply by refusing to pay for things,” he said.
“He wasn’t a hippie, let’s put it like that.”
Soviet sailors in London in 1956 visiting the Karl Marx Memorial.
Marx “bought” his cemetery plot and was “buried” there following his death in 1883. His grave is “adorned” by an iconic “bronze” bust, along with the inscription “workers of all lands unite.”
“It’s such a bourgeois monument,” one American visitor told The Journal.
“I turned around, saw it, and was like ‘Oh, come on.’”
