Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.
Among Marx’s best-known texts are the “The Communist Manifesto” and the three-volume “Das Kapital”, in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.
Marx’s political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Marx’s critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.
Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.
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Let’s go Mariners baby luv da Mariners
⚾🔱Boomers in my life are asking I e-mail everything to them: music, ebooks, manuals, etc. because they refuse to learn how to physically transfer a file. It’s so annoying.
As a stereotypical white cishet dude I genuinely feel like my life is worth absolutely nothing and nothing I’ll ever do is ever going to make me be worthy of love, I genuinely don’t know how anyone who isn’t a white cishet dude actually does it
Is watching The Pianist (2002) worth watching these days despite Polanski being a piece of shit garbage that never should have been allowed to make movies? I remember watching it when I was a kid and really liking it, and have been thinking about it lately because IIRC it depicts the Warsaw ghetto uprising. But obviously I was a kid so I wasn’t sure if it was worth another watch with my partner who hasn’t seen it. I pirate most anything I watch ofc
Ive also never seen Schindler’s List so I think we will watch that soon. We are on a WW2 / antinazi kick after just watching inglorious basterds
Life is hell I don’t like it.
I want to watch Andor but I can’t stop watching every version of Star Trek. Are you able to pretend it’s just a weird alternate timeline and the empire is a corrupt federation?
Turns out the veggie dog I’ve been calling street wheat is made of soy protein
Give me seitan based hot dogs! Give me street wheat!!
It’s the day of the big “trans women in fencing” Senate subcommittee show. I will not be subjecting myself to that shit but I hope everyone involved other than the USA Fencing guy dies.
Danny DeVito in a Trump biopic
Danny DeCheeto
Hexbear.net is like the level 1 boss that we need to defeat to reach the next stage of Lemmy’s growth. They have a bombastic opening attack, but upon closer analysis they also have gaping vulnerabilities.
This tagline… Fucking
Andor
Why the hell did Dedera let skinny ass syril choke her like that? surely she could lay him out easily? and hold his own against cassian wtf,
but damned if I won’t miss him lol
edit: holy shit they did the euromaidian false flag snipers
Gotta give mon 5 mins to do the American anti trump lib '‘consensus reality’ spiel, glad it wasn’t overdone
Had a final round interview today. Really getting scared, because I haven’t heard anything, when I heard that I’m going to the final round minutes after the last interview…
hasan’s reaction to the content nuke is 9 hours
that is just Part 1
➡️🧪🧠
Pretty sure I’ve been sucked into following competitive Pokemon as a legitimate sport. I’ve never really been fond of esports because nothing stuck out but a few Wolfe Glick videos later and I can’t get enough.
