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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Disney must really be paying for a marketing blitz for their new marvel movie, because my twitter timeline is full of it.
I don’t watch marvel movies, I don’t much like them, I don’t interact with posts about them. If I do, it’s usually accounts I follow making fun of whatever the latest Marvel slop is. The recent Captain America movie they did, Deadpool & Wolverine, Doctor Strange, etc. I really only see posts mocking these films. When a marvel movie is (comparatively) well-received I really don’t see much about it. I heard the latest Guardians of the Galaxy movie was well liked, I didn’t see a single post about that film. The last time I can remember there being serious activity on my TL is either when everyone was making fun of the Scarlet Witch show or when everyone was making fun of Eternals.
But this new Thunderbolts movie, I swear every other post is about it. Not from accounts I follow, either. Not making fun of the movie, but excitedly buying into its marketing gimmicks. Every post is Taskermaster this, New Avengers that, Florence Pugh is slayying in this one queen. I hate it. I’m not interacting with this posts, I demand they go away.
One more sign I should stop using social media, but do I ever learn?
I didn’t know it existed until the recent Half in the Bag
It must say something about me that the only engagement I saw was a couple pictures of the rizzler. I’ve become really judicious with my use of unblock and blocking elements that I think are yucky or sap attention. Then I also do a lot of pruning when I think something is not interesting to me (if it ever normalizes the presence of a cop, if it smacks of gender dynamics, if it’s interacting with corporations, etc.)