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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-Sees nice looking apartment at a reasonably priced rent
-Scheduling tour is relatively painless
-Get sent the application, which asks for rental offer
This is my first time seeing an application asking what you are offering to pay for rent. Considering the area and the amount of people that seem to be interested I have a feeling I’m going to be priced out of this one
New fema acting administrator looks like a goddamn demon. Lives with his two large adult sons
started watching house md. wilson is so hot
“What has capitalism done in one year that communism couldn’t do in eighty?”
“Make communism look good.”
From Blackshirts and Reds
I was so fucking ready for Dave. I used to work with a dude named Dave and me and another guy made Dave puns for 3 hours straight
i fucking love harold melvin and the blue notes man
chipmunk is so silly. they bit me like this
There has been a vibe shift
I have been told “rajma pulao” and “sarson ka saag” sound like scary devil foods no one will try eating and i must label them in crackerese
New rock bottom just dropped: instead of doing something actually worthwhile with my life I am just grinding pet battles on a WoW private server
There’s 100s of comments about the pope in the news mega and i’ve come here to say I dont give a fuck about the pope, youse better get excited when they elect the next pope in alexandria or i’m calling you all racist individually or something
Sorry i drank a beer in an empty stomach, goodnight
ps fuck the church
If the democrats really wanted this to get weird they should run the pope for president. He’s over 35 and born in the US
This bag of spiced nuts I bought has a small graphic that I can only interpret as “try putting a whole handful of these in your mouth at once, you hog”, and just for your information, bag, I was going to do that anyway and didn’t need your advice
Andor spoilers
Seeing chuds compare the Ghorman Massacre to January 6th is quite something
.Anyway, I fucking loved how Syril’s whole arc - a liberal failson obsessed with law, order, and rooting out “outside agitators” - ends with him realizing, too late, that he was just a pawn helping lay the groundwork for a genocide and resource extraction on Ghorman… right before getting casually shot in the head by a Ghor he had betrayed.
New pope is also infallible. The conclave has done it again. Undefeated record.
