Karl Marx’s grave and the contradictions of capitalism
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WHEN Engels died in 1895, his ashes were scattered off Beachy Head close to what had been one of his favourite seaside towns, Eastbourne.
Marx, who died in 1883, had been buried in Highgate Cemetery in a modest grave but geographically appropriate for someone who had spent much of their life in north London.
A modest controversy has now arisen over plans to make more space for graves in the area around where Marx is buried.
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