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Karl Heinrich Marx (American cartoon, 1948)

Text: Karl Heinrich Marx – After 100 years, his boils go marching on.

Year: 1948.

Publisher: Time magazine.

Artist: Ernest Hamlin Baker.

Additional information: Shows a sinister Karl Marx next to a boiling cauldron, with a hammer and sickle forming in the smoke. Commissioned for the centenary of The Communist Manifesto, published in February 1848.