From the New York Times (registration required.):
The cold war may be over, but Marx and Engels have nevertheless managed to create a small political furor in this old river city.
At first, few noticed their five famous words — \”Workers of the world, unite!\” — inscribed among dozens of other quotations outside the gleaming new $70 million Memphis Central Library, which opened in November.
But then this phrase from the Communist Manifesto caught the eye of two county commissioners and a city councilman, and in these days of heightened patriotism a smoldering debate was ignited . . .
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