Highgate Cemetery is located in the north of London, England, divided into the West and East Ends. West Highgate Cemetery was founded in 1839 and East Seagate Cemetery was founded in 1854. Most of the modern celebrities are buried in the East End, and one of the great figures is Marx.
Marx's tomb
On June 3, 2015, I went to the French Visa Application Centre in London to collect my Schengen visa, took the Northern Subway, got off at Highgate station, and walked for about 20 minutes to the Marx Cemetery in Highgate Cemetery, on the northern outskirts of London.
Cemetery entrance
Highgate Cemetery
Monuments are everywhere
Enter the cemetery gate, the cemetery is green with ancient trees, all kinds of silence, stele stones everywhere, along a quiet and deep path to the inside, surrounded by large and small tombstones of different shapes, a few minutes later to Marx's tomb, in the middle of the flowers and trees on both sides is a huge tombstone, granite base, inlaid with white marble tombstones, bronze cast Marx's head is placed on the tombstone, the tombstone engraved Marx's famous words, the top is: "Workers of all lands unite." .” (Proletarians of the world unite!) ）。
The middle part of the tombstone is carved with the names of the five people buried here and the dates of birth and death. They were listed from top to bottom in order of death: Marx's wife, Yanni, Marx himself, Marx's grandson Harry Langit, Marx's maid Helen Demut, and Marx's daughter Elena Marx. The following sentence is: "The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is to change it.” (Philosophers don't just have to explain the world, they're more important to change it.)
The author of this article poses with a statue of Marx
After all, the soul is ethereal, and the cemetery provides a place where the living and the deceased can communicate face-to-face across time and space, and it is a place where the living can remember the deceased. In 2003, when I was a visiting scholar at the Lille University of Science and Technology in France, I transferred from Luxembourg to Cologne, Germany, to Trier, Marx's hometown, and on May 5, 1818, Marx was born in this thousand-year-old city, and I also visited the "White Swan Restaurant" in the Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium, where Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. This time I came to England and I always wanted to come here to visit Marx's tomb, and this trip finally ended a wish for many years.
Sun Keqin wrote and photographed