Two centuries on, Karl Marx feels more revolutionary than ever | Stuart Jeffries

From trainer fetishism to Facebook fever, it’s all there in The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital

The other day I stood at the grave of Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery in north London, wondering if he has anything say to us today, 200 years after his birth, on 5 May 1818. “Workers of all lands unite,” reads the tombstone. But they haven’t – the solidarity of the exploited, which Marx took to be necessary to end capitalism, scarcely exists.

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