Well, I guess it was only a matter of time before the word ‘irony’ stopped being able to quite cover it. The German bank Sparkasse Chemnitz have launched a Karl Marx credit card, after the father of Communism won in an online voting poll for new credit card designs. Somewhere a grave is spinning.

It’s a bust of Marx staring angrily at the MasterCard logo. You can all see this, right?

I mean yes, Chemnitz used to be East of the Berlin wall, so it was called Karl-Marx Stadt, and they would’ve had Marx’s face on their 100-Mark banknotes, but that really, really, really doesn’t make the Karl Marx credit card any less ridiculous.

But you know what, fine. If ever there was a time for a credit card with Karl Marx’s face on it, it would’ve been in the middle of a reasonably massive credit crisis. Let’s go with it.

And it’s a really popular credit card, too! More than a third of the clients at Chemnitz have opted for the Karl Marx card.

Reuters says that a 2008 survey found

“52 percent of eastern Germans believed the free market economy was “unsuitable” and 43 percent said they wanted socialism back.”

For everything else there’s marxcard, I guess?

[Source: Forbes]