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What is clear from all the contributions is that Marx and his ideas have had a profound impact on the world and the history of ideas, whose relevance still resonates.Īs the Church of England priest and Guardian columnist Giles Fraser put it, “Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the right have assumed that the argument against communism had been won, and won decisively. These are just a few of the diverse takes on Marx and his ideas and they demonstrate that, although he was born two centuries ago, he is probably better known today than in his heyday and his ideas still provoke debate and provide inspiration, not least for cartoonists and caricaturists.
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Pole Marek Mosor reflects on what Marx would say today about workers uniting for lesbian and gay rights. German Stefan Siegert has drawn a leafless tree that you can hang on your workplace wall without the boss realising that, hidden in the branches, is a covert portrait of Marx. The Pole Marek Tofil portrays Marx as a body builder, tattooed with the name of his friend Engels, the Communist Manifesto and other related memorabilia, while the Dutchman Olivier Siersma has Marx putting Kim Jong Un over his knee. Some are sharply funny, some deadly serious and yet others acerbic. What these cartoons and caricatures reveal is a wide range of political interpretations - some portray Marx himself, others indict capitalism and yet others vilify the whole Marxian outlook or ridicule its impact.
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This splendid book should put them right on both counts.” Any idiot who thinks of Marx as a dour, humourless leftie has never read him and probably never met a proper leftie either. He surely would have been tickled - and maybe honoured - to see himself caricatured, lampooned and eternalised in such humorous ways as the images in the book show.Ĭartoonist Martin Rowson said of the book: “I got my first big break doing gags about Karl Marx. His letters to friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels reveal a very different person from the one in the photos. The few surviving photos of Marx depict a deadly serious and unsmiling Teutonic-looking intellectual, but in real life Marx was a humorous individual with a sharp and satirical wit. The work of a number of entrants was highly commended and, along with the winners, their efforts are being published in the book I’ll Have the Last Laugh Yet! Karl Marx 1818-2018 in Cartoons, with brief quotations from Marx’s works interspersed with the images. Third prize went to Ehsan Ganji from Iran for his cartoon of a factory worker on an assembly line manufacturing truncheons for police who then use them to attack him when protesting. Second prize went to Raed Khalil from Syria for his black-and-white drawing of Marx’s head with a flock of birds breaking into flight from it. They were tasked with submitting work commemorating Marx and his significance and the jury awarded a joint first prize to Stefan Siegert of Germany for his caricature of a laughing Marx and Ukrainian Konstantin Kazanchev for his cartoon of Marx confronting a young skateboarder with a Che Guevara T-shirt. “A cartoon I made about UBI was also, ‘highly commended,’ in the 2017 Tony Farsky International Marx Bicentenary Cartoon, Poster and Caricature Competition.” Art by David Peter Kerr.