Iwent further to retrace the steps of this great thinker and mentor. I visited his centralLondon home in Soho and toured the BritishMuseum to see where KarlMarx wrote and studied.
For a taste of life in the former East Berlin marvel at the imposing buildings that line Karl-Marx-Allee or visit the DDR Museum (Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 1) for a hands-on experience of the minutiae of daily life in the GDR.