Chinese Regime to Gift Karl Marx Statue to German Town

Chinese Regime to Gift Karl Marx Statue to German Town
A statue of German philosopher Carl Marx is seen in the building of the Corvinus University in Budapest on September 4, 2014. The 'Corvinus' was renamed in 1953 as Karl Marx University and it was a base of the countrys Marxist intellectual elite in the socialist era. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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It’s been written before that the followers of the ideas put forth by Karl Marx, who co-authored the Communist Manifesto, have killed at least 100 million people in the 20th century.

But now, the Chinese Communist Party, to spread what former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin described as “monumental propaganda,” offered a statue of Marx to the German town of his birth. The town voted to accept the statue, drawing ire from some of its residents.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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