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 know that it’s slop-brained but I want to see a superhero story with actual realism for once. Superpowers exist for reasons xyz, it ultimately doesn’t matter I’m willing to suspend my disbelief for the magic bullshit. How did powers come into being? What effects did it have on the development of society if nuclear level threats are something humanity has had to deal with for potentially hundreds of years? How is damage from kaijus dealt with? I want to see the ways society would fundamentally alter if this shit actually happened and it was actually taken seriously. Fuck it, take different countries and see how different reactions and actions shape how their society handles it. I’m sure stories like it exist but they always end up full of
or they just never take thoughts to any actual conclusions and I want the writer to be cool for once
Boku no hero academia lol
I started the show and enjoyed it but fell off after season 3 or 4 because I got bored of waiting. The show has bits of what I’m talking about with the hero registry and schooling system and things of that nature, I just don’t remember them getting into things in a way that was satisfying. It was still stuck in the trappings of shonen. I could be completely wrong though, I still need to finish the show
No, I feel the same way
So watchman but theres more actual superheroes than a God?
Watchmen but thorough? Like almost a sociological examination on a society with superhumans. In Watchmen, I don’t remember them actually talking about society pre/post superhumans and the changes that would be necessary to create some kind of a stable society. It’s always just everything is exactly the same as it is now but also superpowers which feels shallow.