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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  • Kolibri [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    Lately it been warm enough to go outside at night, which is nice since I like to star gaze. So it’s nice to start to be able to do that again without getting cold.

    But it makes me miss my dog more, cw: grief

    Since I would bring my dog outside with me, and this summer just going to be different without him. I can’t help but think how easy it was to lose track of him since he was a walking void, if it wasn’t for his white star on his chest, you wouldn’t notice him in the dark.

    and then this grief is making me think of my mom to, doesn’t help it’s mother day as well. I guess right now it just one of those moments where all that stuff just comes back.

    It also just makes me wonder what am I even doing anymore. Why am I here?

    mental health stuff cw: depression, suicide

    and why can’t things just finally end. It would be nice for things to just end, but they won’t. I don’t really want to be here. I’m really tired. I really would like to think there just some sort of reason why I just have to keep being here, even if I don’t really want to be at times. Yet if there was, things just feel unbearable, especially with lately just feeling like no one really cares about me besides my dad or my grandma.

    just I dunno, I just hope something changes. well that not true, lots of things have changed, and things are always changing, albeit slowly. so maybe this won’t be forever or I hope so.

        • LocalOaf [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          17 hours ago

          Not going great tbh haha, sorry

          Been sick the last couple days and exhausted

          bad family stuff and addiction

          Dad had a fall (stroke?) and went to the hospital a couple days ago again and was in the ICU with sepsis

          Relapsed and got booze and smokes and made myself sick the other day

          Just trying to get some rest and drink plenty of water and feel less awful today

          Have like no energy for anything and am super burned out by everything

          • Kolibri [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            17 hours ago
            family stuff,addiction

            meow-hug that doesn’t sound good with your dad, especially with the sepsis and possible stroke. the stuff with your dad sounds overwhelming.

            it’s good you’re getting rest and drinking water despite the relapse. perhaps just resting a bit and taking care of yourself will help? I hope you keep hanging in there, and hopefully things start to change for the better for you.