Marxist tourists

Well, I've been really busy with work and music and trying to enjoy myself as much as possible, so blogging has really taken the backseat.

However, it would have been impossible to ignore an article in the NY Times about Chinese tourists travelling in huge numbers to the house where Karl Marx was born. I guess as the only economically growing Marxist country (even if Marxism has all but been abandoned except in the fiction of the "dictatorship of the proletariat". The sign above says it all about how many Chinese make the hajj to Marx's house.