Copy of the monumental Marx sculpture in Karl-Marx-Stadt, present-day Chemnitz, Germany (image courtesy the Wende Museum of the Cold War) Few thinkers have had as much influence on modern economic and ...

The head of Karl Marx glooms over Chemnitz, Germany — figuratively, as this city was once part of the Eastern Bloc, formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt, and literally, as a 40-ton stone bust of him is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chemnitz's towering Karl Marx statue - a 40-ton, Communist-era bust with nostrils large enough to put a child's head inside - is ...

Chemnitz is starting its year as a European Capital of Culture with a major show that is expected to draw tens of thousands of visitors to the city in a grand opening on Saturday. German President ...

Known as Karl-Marx-Stadt under communism and later a notorious hotspot for far-right violence, the eastern German city of Chemnitz is now seeking to reinvent itself as a 2025 European Capital of ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, some eastern Germans are once again carrying round images of Karl Marx - if only in their pockets. The disappearance of communist ...