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 feel this deep in my bones as another autistic person lmao. It’s so frustrating that people are so sensitive to that. It sounds like without putting it so bluntly, that you’ve provided opportunities for them to improve their skills through courses and articles which I think is entirely appropriate. But the thing of it is that people don’t care which drives me up the wall.
They do not care if it falls on another person because it’s not their problem. Anecdote: I had a couple of coworkers who ALWAYS, weekly, multiple times a week, would call in sick or be late. I recognized that being short staffed would but a lot of stress on my coworkers, and so I started filling in a lot of shifts because I know how I feel when the shift is short, and I don’t think other people should have to feel that. I started to get worked up about this and spoke to another coworker who simply said: “Stop caring. It doesn’t matter, stop taking shifts.” And that just sat so wrong with me. Like these people are just going to suck at their jobs, make it more difficult for everyone, but no one cares to try to get them to shape up?? It was extremely stressful/emotionally taxing work even when fully staffed, so it really struck me as bizarre that people just put up with it.
They also don’t care if things are inefficient, because they just do their little workarounds that don’t make sense or are a pain in the ass because they can’t be arsed to figure it out even if it would ultimately make their lives (and everyone elses) easier. I assume it’s an autistic thing, maybe not, but I feel like our “bare minimum” is generally much higher than that of our peers. Not all of the time, but in my last job I definitely noticed this with pretty much all but one or two of my coworkers. We did really enjoy our work, so did everyone else. But we easily did 2-3x the workload of everyone else and still fucked around the office or went home early and clocked our FTE.
All of this. My bare minimum is doing the work but I’ll fuck around, take regular breaks, leave early, then get it done the day before it’s due. And I also prefer doing it to general standards so we don’t have to go back and do it again. But others either do it half assed causing problems later or take so long doing it that it impacts the rest of us.
It’s super easy to look like an exceptional employee while not doing anything exceptional at all, but others want to work “harder” for some reason