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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  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    55 minutes ago

    Talked with my mom about housing. She’s coming around that the private market can’t deliver, we talked about how there’s already incentives in Canada up to $1 million for building housing (think like a 3 story walk up, would more or less cover it) but 25% of built units need to be at or below market rate. We talked about how CMHC has mostly faffed about with mortgage rates or down payment percentages or amortization periods for 30+ years and have been totally unable to deal with housing. We even talked a little about how the skilled labour “shortage” just ain’t a thing - there was a time I was looking for an apprenticeship and no one would hire me, no one wanted a first year apprentice (they were happy with a 3rd or journeyman), one time I walked in to a boiler maker union apprenticeship with 100 people and not one of us made it to apprenticeship. They have grants for training AND wage subsidies (something ridiculous like covering 2/3rds of wage) but employers still don’t want to train cause people can leave or they risk hiring someone who doesn’t work out for one reason or another (doesn’t have the head for it, wrong temperament, etc).

    I feel like finally we can agree that the private market just can’t deliver on at least ONE thing. It does make profits! But doesn’t service needs.

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    1 hour ago

    Absurd contrived scenario for Fallout New Vegas: First, side with Caesar’s Legion, save Caesar from the brain tumor. Immediately afterwards, switch to Yes Man then Speech 100 Lanius to get him to retreat. Force the really awkward meeting between Lanius and Caesar.

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    2 hours ago

    why am i watching thirty minutes youtube videos breaking down Dragon Ball fights punch by punch like they were real mma matches this is peak slop but i can’t stop myself

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    2 hours ago

    Bit of a breakthrough in mental health.

    “Be yourself” surprisingly takes a lot of hard work, especially to get good at something and to stick with it. I’ve treated skills and personality traits the way they show up in MLP: FiM, where you get your cutie mark and you intuitively know what your likes and dislikes are just like that. For example, I worked my ass off to bench 225 and while I still have a long way to go in the fitness department, I most certainly did not start off with that weight and dragged my ass kicking and screaming to the gym because I simply was driven by the reward of having larger muscles. Someone recommended guitar to me on this site, and I’ve wanted to do something creative so that’s more or less the same thing, and if I ever want to continue my education it’s also the same way, it’s a process to slog through things to make myself really get into something. So in a sense, I can pick and choose some of my personality traits and skills and passions to some extent, rather than the universe choosing them for me.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    Management seems to be betting a lot on the economy never improving. Were two resignations away from the entire department collapsing, everyone hates working here, and they’re doing nothing to address it.

  • Comrade_Mushroom [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    dropped into a tyler1 SF6 stream to see if he was as horribly embarrassing as he was like 7 years ago or whenever the last time I looked was

    within the span of one minute I watched him loudly shriek misogynist slurs while complaining about “these fucking females (characters)” and how he shouldn’t rematch female characters

    bad - awful, even - but worse was seeing 6k+ people watching this tired shtick

    slowly going from the “I hate people but want them to be happy” mindset to just “I hate people”

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    5 hours ago

    DORITOS

    chicken-bop

    AND FRITOS

    kirby-jammin

    DORITOS

    jevil-bounce

    AND FRITOS

    susie-dance

    DORITOS

    duane

    AND FRITOS

    duck-dance

    DORITOS

    spongebob-party

    AND FRITOS

    sicko-jammin

    I SAID GIMME ALL OF THOSE FUCKING DORITOS AND FRITOS