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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I was never a huge fan of Coke, Fanta or McDonald’s, but since I started boycotting them I have realized how much I don’t like them. I don’t miss them at all, and I don’t know what keeps drawing people back to that crap
I have been boycotting them since about 2021 since they tricked me and a bunch of vegetarians into eating their fries, which are fried in vegetable oil but contain “beef extract”. I don’t miss the fries but I do sometimes miss the hash browns. How else are you going to consume 1100 calories and like 3g salt in 20 seconds?
McDonalds is the same everywhere (Although there are inter country variations im told) and a sandwich is OK and the price is OK, and a lot of people have positive associations with the place from all their marketing to children and the McDonald’s play area being some of the most kid friendly areas in deprived communities. None of this is to defend McDonalds, it’s slop for hogs and their marketing to children is predatory.
Some of my friends used to get their cheeseburgers for lunch when studying, since they were pretty cheap and convenient. After the war in Ukraine began they raised the price by 50% over 3 months. So now you may as well go somewhere with better food
vaguely miss strawberry fanta because the local bottler doesn’t have one but even if i wasn’t taking the laziest moral stand i’m not paying the extortionate price they charge for a 12-pack these days