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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  • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    2 hours ago

    When people say “You can’t be putting your hope on China to save us, we have to save ourselves” I get the point but honestly it sounds naive to me. Which is ironic since they think I’m naive.

    Like, I saw someone say we need an “American Che” and like, that’d be cool but that’s not where we are.

    This is 1939 Germany. We don’t need an American Che, we need a Mexican Stalin and a Chinese FDR. Did the German resistance do good and important work? Of course they did. But did they stop the Nazis? No, the Nazis were only stopped by military intervention from outside forces.

    Genuinely I see very little hope for a positive future in North America that doesn’t involve being militarily occupied. I hope I’m wrong.

  • GeneralSwitch2Boycott [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Got a bigger SD card and I’m downcycling all the cards to the other handheld consoles I have so I got to upgrade my PSP to 256 up from 200GB, but you have to trick it into doing this and you need to get lucky with the right memory card/sd adapter because even from the same distributor it seems they’ll work randomly or not with cards bigger than 128GB. Was able to post about it online to let people know how to do this correctly, hopefully it helps someone.

    Washed all the walls finally, they get dirty here for whatever reason. I think it’s asian beetles and humidity. Dusted all the ceiling fans. Did the laundry. Took out all the garbage and recycling. Watched up to the 2nd-last Yugioh season 0 episode (it’s still just OK). Organized some of my digital music library (still have like 40 albums to add/organize). Helped my mom with some digital stuff in the morning (set up a Windows shared folder that can be accessed by devices as needed). Proofed some yeast and made some garlic bread dough before my next activity.

    Went for my first bike ride of the year! Was all right. It was both sunny and gloomy due to dark clouds on the horizon which sometimes I like and sometimes don’t like. I guess it was OK today. Listened to some TrueAnon episodes and Stop It! a screamo band.

    Got home, garage door is fucking busted due to squirrels so I went to manually close it and the latch cord snapped. Was able to fix it and my dad says the door does close if you stand and hold the button until it closes because the sensors are covered with insulation. It’s so fucking dumb how he openly fantasizes about killing small creatures like a psycho, but won’t just kill these fucking squirrels or better yet do that and then also rodent-proof the garage/sheds at least somewhat. He also complained about a new hazmat tax. He really is like elementary-level on things because he didn’t know what hazardous materials are and seemed skeptical at all how there might be any in the creation of acetylene gas or whatever he bought.

    Made spaghetti and Ikea veggie-meatballs with vegan cheese garlic sticks/fingers. Turned out really well. Oh and a banana smoothie. Watched a couple episodes of Flowers Of Evil anime with mom. Further cleaned up the kitchen so that’s all good for now.

    Today wasn’t bad. Oh, also sewed a Converge patch onto my jacket, which might be the last patch I put on it.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    57 minutes ago

    No one at work got the joke when I was writing the date on stuff and singing to the tune of Ace of Spades by Motorhead

    It’s the 8th of May

    The 8th of may

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    So I finally have a weekend where I play three or four different games and that’s the week there’s no weekly game discussion? Man…

    So the Deeprock Galactic boardgame is amazing and the new Monstroscopy character is really good for cheesing the final boss.

  • Arahnya [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    All this talk of popes is bringing back all the discordianism in me. Now I must put on a fancy hat and parade around in my great self importance. Remember that we are all popes!

  • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    4 hours ago

    Currently sitting in a lovely newly-opened Palestinian cafe in southern Ontario within a quick walk of my workplace. Can’t say which one due to doxxing potential. Death to capitalism of course but the owners are lovely people. And the ambiance is wonderful and the food and drinks are fantastic. This is going to be a new favourite place.

    This place is getting busy. Love seeing that. Very mixed clientele too, also a good sign.

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    While I’m on the side of people that find the old Star Wars Extended Universe’s highs being better than most of the stuff that is canon now, but Andor, especially if it sticks it’s landing, will be better than anything from the EU.