New Delhi, July 22 -- Karl Marx, the man who spent his life criticising capitalism's grip on every aspect of life, from work to thought to human identity, probably never imagined that he would one day become part of the very system he opposed. But that is exactly what seems to have happened recently at London's Highgate Cemetery. A picture of Karl Marx's grave with the Labubu doll is going viral.

Visitors were surprised to find a Labubu doll placed at Marx's grave. For those unfamiliar, Labubu is a trendy plush character from the Pop Mart collection, which is all about surprise, scarcity, and hype-driven collecting. It is everything that screams late-stage capitalism.

So when people saw this wide-eyed toy sitting at the tomb of communis...