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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Wild that weโre almost ten years from when Donald Trump descended the golden escalators and launched his presidential campaign.
Truly a dividing line in history.
August 1914, "the lamps are going out in Europe and I fear they will not turn on in our lifetime"
September 1945, Japanese Emperors unconditional surrender following Soviet declaration of war
May 1968, "Soyez rรฉalistes, demandez l'impossible." Ironically what seemed to be the drawing of the curtain on socialism in western Europe for another generation
September 2001, I mean it's still a watershed lol, clear divide between what came before and after
June 2015, Trump descends the golden staircase and does the bizarre Mexico is sending drugs and they're sexual abusers speech
feels like it was only a week ago