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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Two drunk pensioners are twerking at each other on the train. They seem to be having fun.
what the next level up from a groan?
First they came for the theory nerds, but I did not speak out for I had not investigated
it is may 11 and stalin saved the world from fascism
Happy Mother’s Day to all you motherhexers out there who observe it. It was a too lovely morning, sitting in the sun and I was watching a male bird feeding a young one on a tree branch. I like to think it was giving the mama bird the day off
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Made vegan lasagna, cheese-garlic bread sticks, and a caesar salad for supper/Mother’s day. I got it all prepared this morning/afternoon. My sister popped in to celebrate as a surprised and she brought vegan cheese cake which we cooked some frozen blueberries and sugar as a topping, which turned out really well.
Played
Of Catan, which I’ve never gotten to play before which was pretty fun. My sister and I enjoyed it, my mother didn’t because she hates anything that involves decisions and planning.Wasn’t a bad day. Got some stuff done for myself too. Organized the last of my digital music library (for now). Read some Monthly Review articles from the April edition.
If we all get together we can co-ordinate tru anyone tipping tips well eboguh to make Brade and Liz legit believe something silly. I’m thinking anacondas. Just everyone start dealing in with sightings of large constrictor snakes or the disappearance of small animals and large snake like trails in your neighborhood. If we make it seem real and they do a full episode on the large snakes it means we can do anything. We can develop nukes
Getting around to checking out a little Duran Duran and now the names of a million steam achievements are starting to make sense to me
TV and movie sound departments be like
I will make all of the dialogue too quiet to hear and then when the audience increases the volume I will blow out their ear drums! How delightfully devilish!
whelp, i’m now posting from a linux build running on a macbook pro.
installing some stuff onto it still, just dont know what to do with this laptop now.
Hey, legal 1st amendment question, purely for educational purposes. Could someone get in trouble for saying something like, for example, “The people must run a stochastic terror campaign against ICE agents”?
Why are pepper plants like the fainting goat of the plant world?
Like, not enough water, or too much water, or looking at it wrong, and it’s just like AIGHT, BET, I’M OUT and it drops all its leaves off
Like they just kill themselves, like, the leaves just autolyze at the base and fall
I am assuming it’s an adaptation to reduce water loss but like, my plant in christ, you need those fucking leaves!
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Damn, me getting ratioed by bigots for saying that rules against eating pork were based in valid public health concerns.
