Vandals have smashed and defaced the London tomb of Karl Marx in what the cemetery says appears to be a deliberate attack against the philosopher’s ideology.
Karl Marx (photo credit: International Institute of Social History, Wikimedia Commons)
A marble plaque with the names of Marx and his family — the monument’s oldest and most fragile part — was repeatedly hit with a blunt metal instrument, Ian Dungavell, who runs the cemetery trust, tells AFP.
The damage was discovered yesterday, he says.
“The name of Karl Marx seems to have been particularly singled out, so it wasn’t just a random smashing up of a monument — it seems a very targeted attack on Karl Marx,” says Dungavell, chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs the graveyard.
German revolutionary philosopher Marx moved to London in 1849 and lived in the British capital for the rest of his life. He died on March 14, 1883, aged 64.
— AFP
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