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Hammers will never kill the ideas and inspiration of Karl Marx
Another attack on Marx’s grave proves just how powerful and feared are the ideas of the great thinker, says PETER FROST
Marx's tomb at Highgate cemetery
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IT IS hard to understand what the fascist idiot who attacked Karl Marx’s tomb with repeated frenzied hammer blows last weekend thought they might achieve.
Over the years the impressive monument has had more than its share of attacks from hammers, paint and even bombs but Marx’s ideas and philosophy live on to inspire working people all over the world.
Sadly Highgate Cemetery says the Grade I listed monument will never be the same again. No doubt that is true, but far more important is that when Marxists, communists, socialists, Labour Party members and many more left-wing activists from across the globe gather here on Sunday March 17 for the annual Marx Oration and Commemoration Ceremony, they will be inspired, not by the condition of the memorial itself but by the undying Marxist thinking and action that it represents.
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