Karl Marx's grave (London)

United Kingdom / England / London
 grave, interesting place
Karl Marx was a political thinker who is known for coming up with the idea of modern communism. He was born in 1818 in Trier in Germany (then in Prussia) and wrote the Communist Manifesto, which predicted that the current system of Capitalism would (and should) be replaced with Communism, a system where there was no class divide.

Marx died aged 64, at the time in London. He is buried here in the eastern part of Highgate Cemetery. The monument at his grave was then set up in 1959 including a stone sculpture of his head, and in 1970 there was an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the grave with a bomb. The inscription "WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE" was the last thing written in his book the Communist Manifesto.

His theories were later taken into practice in a revolution led by Lenin, who proceeded to transform Russia into the World's first socialist country.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx#Death_and_Legacy
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Coordinates:   51°33'58"N   -0°8'37"E

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  • On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep - but forever. -- Friedrich Engels
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