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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Wow my Database Management instructor really didn't feel like showing up to work this week.
Our "lecture" is a youtube video essay on ~~AI~~ LLMs, and our "assignment" is to have a conversation about Database Management with ChatGPT. The assignment itself was written by ChatGPT.
There's an extra credit which seems more interesting about ~~AI~~ LLM agents in database systems. Frankly I would have made that the main assignment for the week idk what I'm supposed to get out of this "have a conversation" bullshit.
Most of the assignments for this class so far have just been googling how to do things in PostgreSQL/MongoDB for an hour or so which has been easy as balls but at least that was hands on practice doing database stuff. This is just taking the piss.