'JENNY VON WESTPHALEN.
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
KARL MARX.
BORN 12TH FEBRUARY 1814.
DIED [2]ND DECEMBER 1881.
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
KARL MARX.
BORN 12TH FEBRUARY 1814.
DIED [2]ND DECEMBER 1881.
AND KARL MARX.
BORN MAY 5TH 1818, DIED MARCH 14TH 1883.
BORN MAY 5TH 1818, DIED MARCH 14TH 1883.
AND HARRY LONGUET.
THEIR GRANDSON
BORN JULY 4TH 1878, DIED MARCH 20TH 1883.
THEIR GRANDSON
BORN JULY 4TH 1878, DIED MARCH 20TH 1883.
AND HELENA DEMUTH.
BORN JANUARY 1ST 1823. DIED NOVEMBER 1890
BORN JANUARY 1ST 1823. DIED NOVEMBER 1890
AND ELEANOR MARX, DAUGHTER OF KARL MARX
BORN JANUARY 16TH 1856. DIED MARCH 31ST 1898.'
BORN JANUARY 16TH 1856. DIED MARCH 31ST 1898.'
Helena Demuth was the family housekeeper and almost certainly had a child by Marx whom Engels (diplomatically) claimed to be his own.
A similar image to this is used on the front page of the new leaflet 'East map' of Highgate Cemetery. Karl Marx's grave is the most popular in the cemetery: in many ways the great man is very much alive.
In a far more obscure part of the cemetery is the site where Marx's grave originally lay. The stone reads:
'THEIR REMAINS WERE
REMOVED AND RE-INTERRED
ON 23rd NOVEMBER 1954 AT
THE PLACE NEARBY WHERE
A MONUMENT WAS ERECTED
ON 14th MARCH 1956'
REMOVED AND RE-INTERRED
ON 23rd NOVEMBER 1954 AT
THE PLACE NEARBY WHERE
A MONUMENT WAS ERECTED
ON 14th MARCH 1956'
Near Marx's grave are those of several people who shared his views of the capitalist world:
'CLAUDIA VERA JONES
BORN TRINIDAD 1915.
DIED LONDON 25.12.1964.
VALIANT FIGHTER AGAINST RACISM AND
IMPERIALISM WHO DEDICATED HER LIFE
TO THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM AND THE
LIBERATION OF HER OWN BLACK PEOPLE.'
IMPERIALISM WHO DEDICATED HER LIFE
TO THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM AND THE
LIBERATION OF HER OWN BLACK PEOPLE.'
'CHRIS HARMAN
Revolutionary, Thinker, Activist
1942–2009
1942–2009
And I always thought: the very simplest words
Must be enough. When I say what things are like
Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself
Surely you see that.'
Must be enough. When I say what things are like
Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself
Surely you see that.'
'PAUL FOOT
1937 – 2004
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many – they are few.'
The above battle cry is of course the final verse of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'The Mask of Anarchy', written in response to the Peterloo massacre in Manchester, 1819, in which drunken cavalry slaughtered 15 reformers and injured hundreds more.
'DR YUSEF
MOHAMED DADOO
1909–1983
MOHAMED DADOO
1909–1983
CHAIRMAN OF THE
SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY
SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY
HE DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO THE CAUSE
OF NATIONAL LIBERATION, SOCIALISM
AND WORLD PEACE.'
OF NATIONAL LIBERATION, SOCIALISM
AND WORLD PEACE.'
'Eric Hobsbawm
Historian
1917 – 2012'
Some referred to Eric Hobsbawm as 'Neil Kinnock's favourite Marxist', and although Hobsbawm supported Kinnock's reforms of the Labour Party he thought differently about Tony Blair: 'Thatcher in trousers'.