Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Little ramblin’ Woody rat sittin’ on Karl Marx’ lap

Marx-Engels-Forum is a public park in the centre of Berlin. It is named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as the founders of modern communism. In the Marx-Engels-Forum you find this impressive statue of these two big men, former students of Humbolt University who lived in Brussels for a while. It’s in Brussels they wrote their influential book with it famous final line: ‘Workers of all lands, unite!’