Karl Marx Credit CardSparkasse Chemnitz

In a contrast to the staunchly capitalist image of modern Germany, the East German bank Sparkasse Chemnitz is offering customers a Karl Marx credit card.  Reuter's Sophie Duvornoy reported on this recently.

This moment of historical irony arose from an online poll posted on the bank's website.

Given a choice of a ten monuments, including several local castles, voters overwhelmingly chose a local monument to Karl Marx to adorn a credit card. It won a commanding 35 percent of the vote.  

[hat tip to BoingBoing]

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