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 wish libidinous still had the bee element from the noun form. Kinda lame without it tbh
Slopaholics anomgamus
https://youtu.be/wtDI4KTk5l0?t=817 Chile has such a good Metal scene.
Being vegan and eating out is impossible, like, everything has meat, and what doesn’t have any meat, has dairy, or fish. Gadamnit I just want to eat
It’s really adorable watching a bird hop up branches of a tree.
it is may 10 and stalin saved the world from fascism
I was discussing mental health with a friend and I came up with a crazy theory that is regionally very specific but I think it has some utility value. This only applies to the the southern California region specifically.
For socal residents going to Disneyland is a form of bdsm. I have specifically noticed a trend with submissive partners I have known that they like going to Disneyland. Where the experience there is being forced to wait, then being restrained, then being subjected to extreme sensations.
I guess any place where you live that has season passes to amusement parks can develop a similar practice of self bdsm. I think that I am onto something here.
There is an intersection of mental health, ritual activity, flow state, and submission, this idea is circling around and I am not sure how to synthizie it
tried making some siopao for the first time and it was a bit of a struggle but i hope that they at least taste good
Saitō Kōhei is right — Marx (and thus Marxists, until Saitō arrived) was completely wrong to assert “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of the development of the productive forces.”
How did Engels let this get published in 1848? Right, he was a Stalinist.
lucky boy
Inner sloth got Thom Yorke to make the ost for the newly released among us 3D game
A drunk guy sat down on the train across three and a half seats and immediately started trying to flirt with the lady behind him who effortlessly started pretending she only spoke Russian mid-sentence, then once the drunk guy left she switched back to the same language he was flirting in.
I love public transport.A guy was hammering on the bus door trying to get in as the bus drove off, I told the bus driver someone wanted to get on and he responded by literally saying “I guess he’s going to be late”.
HE WAS TOUCHING THE BUS.
Now I’m sitting here fuming at a bus driver.Saitō Kōhei is right — Marx (and thus Marxists, until Saitō arrived) was completely wrong to assert “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of the development of the productive forces.”
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
