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Why Karl Marx is set to enter the toffs' bible LONDONERS DIARY

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20010724
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KARL MARX, the champion of the oppressed, is to become a confirmed toff. For the 19th century thinker, whose writings inspired the Communist revolutions in Russia and China, looks set to be included in the next edition of Burke's Peerage .

Marx would qualify for entry to Burke's , the studbook of the upper classes, courtesy of his wife Jenny von Westphalen.

Jenny was a daughter of the Baron of Westphalen, a fact that Marx was keen to publicise. When not busy penning Das Kapital ,Marx was having visiting cards printed for her with the name "Mme Jenny Marx, ne Baronesse von West-phalen ",which ...

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