--- title: "Grimes Spotted Reading Karl Marx After Breaking Up With Elon Musk" description: "In Los Angeles shots published by Page Six, in fact, Grimes can be seen leafing through Marx's influential volume \"The Communist Manifesto.\"" date: "2021-10-03" modified: "2021-10-03" authors: - name: "Jon Christian" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-karl-marx-elon-musk" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "drama" - "elon musk" - "grimes" - "the digest" --- # Grimes Spotted Reading Karl Marx After Breaking Up With Elon Musk ![In Los Angeles shots published by Page Six, in fact, Grimes can be seen leafing through Marx's influential volume "The Communist Manifesto."]() *\Image: Getty Images\* ## Rebound Guy Just a week after [breaking up]() with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, acclaimed musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher has been spotted with a new guy. The lucky fellow? German economist Karl Marx, best known as one of the key thinkers behind communism during the mid-1800s. In [shots published by *Page Six*](), in fact, Grimes can be seen leafing through Marx's influential volume "[The Communist Manifesto]()" during a stroll in Los Angeles. https://twitter.com/GrimezszCharts/status/1444427211000397825 ## Elon Marx The shots are the latest in a tumultuous political journey for Grimes, who famously [removed the descriptor "anti-imperialist"]() from her Twitter bio after getting together with Musk in 2018. Confusingly, she [also claimed]() around the same time that she had tried to get Tesla employees to unionize — a proposition that Musk has [opposed loudly](). After the photos of her reading Marx went viral online, Grimes took to Instagram to post [an Instagram screed]() saying that "I am not a communist," while conceding that "there are some very smart ideas in this book" and opining that universal basic income could be "achieved thru crypto and gaming." ## Biggest Fan All told, it sounds like the Marx photos were intended to be tongue-in-cheek, though perhaps also a reflection of the [tumult that the breakup has caused]() in Grimes' life. "Regardless my opinions on politics are difficult to describe because the political systems that inspire me the most have not yet been implemented)," she added in the Instagram post. "Anyway if paparazzi keep chasing me perhaps I will try to think of more ways to meme — suggestions welcome!" And if that doesn't work, she can always hide out at her [lesbian space commune](). **READ MORE:** [Grimes seen reading Karl Marx following split with world’s richest man Elon Musk]() \[*Page Six*\] **More on the breakup:** *[Elon Musk and Grimes Just Broke Up After Dating Three Years]()* ## Author I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()