Germans found 52% believed the free-market economy was “unsuitable” and 43% said they wanted socialism back. Karl Marx may be dead and buried in High gate cemetery, but he’s alive and well among credit-hungry Germans. Would Marx have appreciated the irony of his image being deployed on a card to get Germans deeper in debt? You’d think. Later this week in London, several thousand people will attend Marxism 2012, a five-day festival organized by the Socialist Workers’ Party. It’s an annual event, but what strikes organizer Joseph Choonara is how, in recent years, many more of its attendees are young. “The revival of interest in Marxism, especially for young people comes because it provides tools for analyzing capitalism, and especially capitalist crises such as the one we’re in now,” Choonara says.