The Karl Marx Credit Card

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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. For everything else there's Mastercard."

The Karl Marx Credit Card - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Karl Marx bank cards prove hit in eastern Germany | Reuters

A bank in the former East Germany asked customers what new option they’d like to see for their credit cards, and a bust of Karl Marx won out, Reuters reports, noting, too, that a 2008 survey showed 43% of residents in the former East Germany wanting a return to socialism. Angela Merkel, hardly the socialist, hails from the region.

Here’s some Karl Marx for thought:

Talk about centralisation! The credit system, which has its focus in the so-called national banks and the big money-lenders and usurers surrounding them, constitutes enormous centralisation, and gives to this class of parasites the fabulous power, not only to periodically despoil industrial capitalists, but also to interfere in actual production in a most dangerous manner — and this gang knows nothing about production and has nothing to do with it.

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Local bank from Chemnitz, formerly "Karl Marx City" in the GDR, that offers a series of pics of local tourist sites as options on credit cards. Half of their customers who chose such vanity cards chose Marx.

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Local bank from Chemnitz, formerly "Karl Marx City" in the GDR, that offers a series of pics of local tourist sites as options on credit cards. Half of their customers who chose such vanity cards chose Marx.

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I would DEFINATELY choose one of those if I could. If not, a Che Guevara one would do. When I got to uni in the late 80s I bought a Che poster as a joke. When the Berlin wall fell I turned it upside down & left it that way for a decade.

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Mine is still upright. Hasta la victoria siempre!


Marx' house in Trier is visited by about 50,000 pilgrims every year btw. It's owned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, named after a social democrat German president who squashed communist uprisings against his rule around 1920.

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Mine is still upright. Hasta la victoria siempre!


Marx' house in Trier is visited by about 50,000 pilgrims every year btw. It's owned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, named after a social democrat German president who squashed communist uprisings against his rule around 1920.

Some of this stuff is too good to be true