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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    • LocalOaf [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      23 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
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        23 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.