With scars from the Cold War still fresh, people from capitalist former West Germany and the once communist East are of two minds about the 19th-century philosopher. “My mother told me once that Karl Marx is a communist and that was that. “He should not be buried away.”Karl Marx rememberedWhile older generations in west Germany grew up with little knowledge of key Marx works such as the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, that has changed since reunification. “Karl Marx formulated important ideas, and it is worthwhile to think about these ideas. If, after visiting (these exhibitions), someone then goes out to buy a book to re-examine different aspects of what Karl Marx offered, then I think we’d have achieved a lot,” Leibe said.

Source: The Express Tribune May 01, 2018 06:45 UTC