Highgate Cemetery

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways.  The point however, is to change it.

-Karl Marx

We all want to save the world.  Well, at least some of us.  We would like to see liberté, egalité, fraternité, as the French motto goes, all over the world. Is that possible?  Is it daydreaming, wishful thinking?

     Standing by Karl Marx’s tomb at High Gate Cemetery, in London, and reading the epitaph “Workers of all lands, unite!” I couldn’t help thinking about whether his ideas, as expressed in Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, might have really caused some positive changes in the world, had they not been perverted by those who claimed to be following in his footsteps.

© William Almonte Jiménez, 2015