Karl Marx's Gravestone 'Vandalized With A Hammer' In London

Karl Marx's memorial has been vandalised! It looks like someone has had a go at it with a hammer. It's a Grade I-listed monument; this is no way to treat our heritage. @MarxLibrary @HeritageCrime We will repair as far as possible. pic.twitter.com/6nY2TJOjw7

— Highgate Cemetery (@HighgateCemeter) February 5, 2019

The Guardian: Karl Marx's London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack

Friends of Highgate Cemetery calls attack a ‘particularly inarticulate form of political comment’

The tomb of Karl Marx at London’s Highgate cemetery has been vandalised in a targeted attack that means the Grade I-listed monument will “never be the same again”.

The suspected vandal damaged a marble plaque which was taken from Marx’s original 1883 gravestone and incorporated into the 1954 monument.

Images of the defaced memorial, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year, show what appears to be damage done by a hammer to the lettering of Marx’s name and the marble on which it is mounted.

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WNU Editor: Considering the terrible legacy that his beliefs spawned, I am surprised that his tomb was not vandalized until now. Here is an easy prediction. There are still many who support his beliefs, and they will raise the funds necessary to repair or replace his tombstone.

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