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“The paint was still fresh on Saturday morning,” Ian Dungavell, chief executive of Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview from London. The Trust maintains the 180-year-old cemetery where the tomb is located.
“It is a senseless physical attack,” Dungavell added. “I think regardless of what you think of Marx’s ideology, it’s actually upsetting to see people cause physical destruction.”
Marx’s tomb, however, has been a repeat target for vandals since it was unveiled in 1956, even being bombed in the 1970s. More
That’s vandalization I can get behind.
It should be removed and tossed in one of the mass burial pits somewhere around the world caused by this scumbag’s “ideology”
“Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust”
When I first read that, I thought it said “HELLgate”. More fitting.
What is much more disturbing than the defacing of the tomb, is the fact that people put flowers on his grave!
Excellent news! Perhaps we should organize a plane charter and we can all go and vandalize his tomb!
…Marx’s tomb wasn’t the ONLY thing that got bombed in the ’70’s, we’re STILL dealing with all the HIPPIES that did, except you calk them “congresspersons” now…
If they didn’t make the monument such a “stick in your eye” level, gaudy, over-glorification of a man who caused such abject poverty, misery and horror at a global level…maybe it wouldn’t get vandalized so much…
Replace the gaudy monument with this:
https://is.alicdn.com/img/pb/699/918/403/403918699_031.jpg
Make sure it is mounted directly over his mouth.
The vandalism will stop.
You can charge admission and it will easily cover any maintenance costs.
Whoops! That’s capitalism…
Is it actually vandalism if the person wrote facts about the destructive nature of the dead commie? I don’t think so. I liked how red paint was used; an appropriate touch considering all the bloodshed which resulted from his ideology.
I saw that ugly thing when I walked through Highgate. The temptation…
They should replace the likeness of Marx with a rendition of a Gulag along with a plaque listing the nations cursed with Marxism and the body count.
Hoist his carcass on a pole, anally.
The monument that the Seattle communists erected in Freemont to celebrate Lenin’s atrocities gets blood painted hands from time to time. We were drinking beer one night and thought about lassoing it and yanking it over w/our truck then tossing it in Elliot Bay. Decided against it, but it was a close vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin,_Seattle
That’s not vandalism. They’re trying their best to dig him up and bring him back to life.
I hate Marxism but, IMO vandalizing statues is adolescent behavior.
Agreed Tim, either steal the body or get over yourselves.
@ Tim Buktu – Right on 100%, can someone please call Andy Cuomo and tell him this?
https://nypost.com/2017/08/16/cuomo-orders-confederate-busts-be-removed-from-cuny-hall-of-fame/
I agree with the ‘keep it there and put a plaque with the opposite position RIGHT next to it’ solution, public art only.
Churchill and FDR were vandalized in London three weeks ago btw.
I know where Sanger is buried (hint Albany), I am tempted to piss away, but my value system tells me its WRONG to desecrate.
It’s a commie plot!
When I first heard it was attacked with a hammer, my first thought was “… and sickle?”