Marx must come down! A racist!

Photo: Loz Pycock

All these comrades ranting about statues had better check their back yards before shouting down. The man who inspired a movement that ended up murdering millions because no one could ever get his so-called socialism to work was a racist. 
Evidence:

"The Jewish nigger Lassalle who, I’m glad to say, is leaving at the end of this week, has happily lost another 5,000 talers in an ill-judged speculation. The chap would sooner throw money down the drain than lend it to a ‘friend’, even though his interest and capital were guaranteed. In this he bases himself on the view that he ought to live the life of a Jewish baron, or Jew created a baron (no doubt by the countess). Just imagine!"

"One of our nigger’s great discoveries — which, however, he only confides to his ‘closest friends’ — is that the Pelasgians were of Semitic descent. The main evidence: in the Book of Maccabbees, the Jews send emissaries to solicit the help of Greece on grounds of kinship. Furthermore, an Etruscan inscription has been found in Perugia, and this was simultaneously deciphered by Hofrat Stucker in Berlin and an Italian, and both independently converted the Etruscan into the Hebrew alphabet."
 

(Marx to Engels: 30th July 1862)  

Of course Marx won't be torn down and the communists would defend their flawed mentor. But perhaps people in glass houses....... 

Oh and just as an aside Trotsky was into blood-sports if you are a vegetarian/vegan/animal rights activist.