If USA user base knew English, they wouldn’t brake the rules. But hey, fuck of what the rules say.
I do enjoy reports mate.One thing we know for sure is he’d be the biggest shitposter on lemmy.
Given what I know about Marx as a historical figure and what he observe to come to his conclusions but having not read his work (Capital is a literal textbook and the Communist Manifesto is short and dry) I can hazard a guess that Marx would probably be with the punks and what’s left of Redneck lefties. Either that or he’d be an autistic online shit poster because I’m pretty damned sure he had the right personality.
Communist Manifesto has jokes. They are subtle.
It does but it still comes off as pretty dry. 1800s works tend to be that way unless it was written by Mark Twain and even then Tom Sawyer is still pretty close.
Marx wouldn’t be a Maoist?
According to the image he would be quite fond of open source software.
Marx would likely be appalled by most any authoritarian communist regime.
Almost like they don’t actually represent communist ideals at all or something…
It’s the basic human tendency to take an unbiased ideology, broadcast an unintended interpretation to generate a following, then build a cult that puts them in power.
The oldest trick in the book. And it sadly works, nearly every time.
If Marx were alive today he’d probably hate modern day “marxists” and they’d hate him.
He hated Marxists in his own lifetime
say it louder, don’t think .ML heard you lul
They hear. .Ml is full of stoop kids. They don’t leave their stoop.
There’s one thing that’s always true about leftists.
They only eat other leftists.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Marxism, is in fact, GNU/Marxism, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Marxism. Marxism is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Marxism, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Marxism, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Marxism is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Marxism is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Marxism added, or GNU/Marxism. All the so-called Marxism distributions are really distributions of GNU/Marxism!
jokes on you, I also use MUSL/centre-left and BSD/anarchism
Marxism/Stallmanism Interview with a GNU/Linux user - Partition 1
If Marx was alive today, maybe he would be a furry femboy in thigh high socks and a hoodie. :3
You’re projecting again. Doesn’t help that I agree with you
Running gentoo or nix
If Marx were alive today, he’d be whacking with Ben’ll Frank you on The Hub.
Free [open source] software, you mean.
It’s more about software freedom than mere access to the code.
If you have access to the code, why is it not free?
For example Unreal Engine is source available. Can’t redistribute it, can’t fork it and make a new version for the public. Still need to pay Epic when you release a game and make revenue over one million.
Unfortunately having access to all the pixels that make up a movie or all the words that make up a book doesn’t make either free, and the same thing applies to code depending on licenses
License. The owner of the source can still limit what you can (legally) do with it.
Which raises the question: Is Karl Marx an MIT or a GPL man?
Under Communism, probably public domain. Under Capitalism definitely GPL.
Some open source projects sell recompiled and signed copies and if you want it free, you can compile from source.
It’s a convenience thing…
Free doesn’t mean free. It means free.
In addition to the other comment, a lot of companies typically sell support for their software, not the software itself. That counts for a lot in the business world
