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 get where you’re coming from but most people are going to interpret that as you telling them to git gud which isn’t going to be helpful.
They likely already feel bad about not being able to keep up and then you’re piling on, or they don’t give a fuck and your effort is wasted.
If I tell someone git gud and also provide the resources to get good is it still offensive?
Genuine question too, this is one of those neurotypical communication aspects that confuse me.
It can be, yeah. People generally are just really really bad at taking constructive criticism, especially unsolicited. You need a lot of rapport with someone for them to not jump to being defensive, and even then I’ve had friends of over a decade still not take things well when it was advice they didn’t ask for.
Now they might also be offended in the moment and then work through it later and take it to heart, but you’re risking pissing off and alienating coworkers so 🤷
I just stick to teaching the ones that reach out for help, at least you know they’ll likely be more receptive to that
Q: How to give constructive criticism to people who need it but don’t want it?
A: you don’t
Guess this is the constructive criticism I need to take myself 😆. I do love teaching and helping others grow in their own skills at least, so I’ll wait for them to ask
Yeah, if nothing else learning to just bite my tongue and say nothing has helped me be less neurotic day to day. People gotta want to be helped first, save my energy for them instead of making myself crazy over people not meeting my standards.
Not my circus not my monkeys, etc. sometimes i just vent here, or to friends if someone really drives me up the wall