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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  • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Can’t finish setting up my computer until my coworker gives me his old keyboard like he said but he keeps forgetting it or working from home stress

    I don’t want to pay for one if I can get one for free but if he doesn’t bring it tomorrow I’m taking the L and buying one

  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I have figured out why doctors go insane. Here is a translation of a real conversation:

    1: Oh yeah I’m gonna do like 8 hours of dry then take a nap

    2: Oh yeah I did like 12 hours of dry yesterday and two hours of wet

    1: You benefit from wet?

    2: Kind of. But mostly it’s more fun to spot wet. Cozier, you know?

    1: Wet is just a waste of time IMO (Each litter pronounced and emphasised). Plus there’s way more people in dry

    2: Yeah you don’t have to fight to see anything in wet

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I’m writing a character who is a communist in a Russian-inspired world, and I’d like a subtly communist surname for him. I think something like Dzhugashvili is a bit too on the nose, and since most westerners would never have heard of it, they would probably ask me to explain why, and I can’t be bothered to explain that its Stalin’s name. Also this guy is a big dork and really not analogous to Stalin at all. So does anyone have any suggestions?

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I’m kinda bad at actually learning the names of people in bands. Probably did a faux pas the other day when I was like, "oh, so that’s your name to the vocalist of Apes of the State.

    To be fair, I absolutely love Apes of the State and love April’s voice, but I just was sort of mentally calling her Ms. ApesoftheState for the past several years.

  • ratboy [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Having an existential crisis rn because I may have to choose not to pursue my masters in protest of my universities position on global politics… I would really like to talk this through with someone if they have the capacity stalin-stressed

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Visited the palace for an invitation thing and got within like 15m of the king in his back garden yesterday.

    The buffet was shit. I’ve had better sandwiches. The desserts and sweets were good though.