LONDON — Karl Marx may be resting in peace, but he now does so under 24/7 video surveillance. While some tombs of illustrious individuals are monitored — a webcam feed of Andy Warhol’s grave in Virginia is available online — cameras remain rare in cemeteries, especially around specific graves. Marx’s is the first one to be monitored at Highgate, London’s most-visited burial ground, in a city where video surveillance is almost everywhere. On a recent rainy afternoon, the few visitors who noticed the discrete closed-circuit cameras watching the grave viewed Marx’s fate with a mix of bitterness and sour humor. Among the 170,000 people buried at Highgate in 53,000 graves, Marx is probably the most famous, and his tomb is a major attraction.

Source: New York Times February 09, 2020 08:48 UTC