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.
- 🐻Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/4737618
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/4738774
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/4735043
- 👊 New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/4727606
- 🧡 Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/4773155
- Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/4729234
reminders:
- 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
- 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
- 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
I have a seasonal job now, but I still need to find employment in the fall, and my seasonal job is one of those that will literally take anyone.
Unfortunately more “permanent” jobs never take ‘just anyone’ especially now that even the local McDonalds refuses to settle for anything less than perfection.
How tf do I trick some hiring manager into giving a filthy imperfect person like me a chance when hiring is a total non-issue and thousands upon thousands of perfect people apply everywhere? Why would anyone settle for trash like me when everyone is a genius except for me?
How did I mix red curry with red lentils, coconut milk and onions and end up with something green. This comment also brought to you by Long Commute. Which has made me check out my packed lunch
The Anglo Saxon word for fine/levy/tax became the Danish/Norwegian word for “Debt” because of who was on what end of the viking protection racket. This random information brought to you by Long Transportation Times.
Long Transportation Times is a subsidiary of privatised public services.
I clock into work on my phone then sit in my car and bs for a bit before being the one only wearing a mask for 8 hours
Currently hearing the light rain as it hits the car
I just realized we already have an american version of that chinese tiktok guy who makes all the peasant candy and its the guy who makes all that prison dessert
I am so tired of life. This year has been horrible, easily the worst year of my life by far. failed and dropped out of a fucking high school completion program because of mental breakdowns and I can’t get work anywhere because everything requires you to have a high school diploma or GED and all the places that I have applied to have just ignored me.
I was trying to sleep, but I had a weird sensation that scared me. I think I was about to dream or getting hypnagogic stuff, but it was just weird. Like despite sleeping in a pitch black room, it felt like somehow the “lights” got turned off in a flash like how lights turn off, and it somehow got even more darker. just weird.
Yet another Pope who’s Catholic. C’mon, where’s DEI when you need it?
Ow ouch owie my muscles hurt from the gym
birger pope
I am so unlucky, but I am not disadvantaged by nature of my birth (outside of disability) so it sounds like I’m being an asshole when I talk about it. I’m not complaining about my life, I’m complaining about somehow always getting below the expected value in games of chance. I’m not trying to tell I sob story, I’m explaining a statistical anomaly! I react strongly to offers to go to the casino not out of a gambling habit, I would have to win a damn game to get addicted in the first place!
Pretty wack that catholics everywhere are about to respect someone’s new chosen name
Watching Lawrence of Arabia entirely through three minute YouTube clips
Why do t they ever do anything cool for this pope bullshit why is everything so somber gothic-core. Bless a giant goddamn barrel of wine and make a Jesus blood swimming pool or somethngn. You boring old fucks
