![]() ![]() There have also been protests from EU member states formerly ruled by communists. “Marx’s defenders often say he cannot be held accountable for what communist regimes did long after his life and death but Marxist dictators who massacred their own people were applying communist ideology to political practice,” “Violence and Marxism go hand in hand,” they said in a letter send on behalf of the Victims of Communism foundation. ![]() Three US Congress members wrote Mr Juncker this week, imploring him to pull out of the event. The geographic rather than political reasoning for his participation in a programme of events which also includes the unveiling of an 18-foot-tall statue of Marx (a gift from China) didn’t placate critics of the decision. Marx’s birthplace is situated on the border with Luxembourg and Mr Juncker was made an honorary citizen of the town during his 18 years in charge of the Grand Duchy. Mr Juncker was also keen to stress that Marx was “lucky in life as he was born in Trier.” “Unstable also because Europe’s social dimension until today remains the poor relation of the European integration. “The European Union is not a flawed, but an unstable construction,” he said. Turning to Marx’s influence on modern politics, Mr Juncker said it was the “task of our time” to improve social rights. “One has to understand Karl Marx from the context of his time and not have prejudices based on the review.” “Today he stands for things, which is he not responsible for and which he didn’t cause, because many of the things he wrote down were redrafted into the opposite,” he told an audience of a few hundred people in a local church. Mr Juncker described Marx as a “philosopher who thought into the future had creative aspirations” and addressed criticism of his legacy. ![]()
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