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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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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You ever think about how Terry Goodkind created an evil Chinese Communist army and to emphasize their brutality made their favorite sport American football.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

i have watched flee recently, and i have very contradictory feeling about the main character

spoilerhis bro is the real hero, sacrificing his life to help family, while the main character is like "they sacrificed so much for me, i gotta rise and grind for them". although he is obviously fucked from the lying about family and stuff, which maybe the reason for avoiding people (coupled with fears of coming out) deeper-sadness great movie anyway

[–] MikeyChaz@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Inner sloth got Thom Yorke to make the ost for the newly released among us 3D game

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The contradictions are sharpening and the Imperial Core ever more fascistic and autocanniballistic. The silver lining is that at least folk punk is making a comeback. πŸͺ•

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[–] Moss@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I was never a huge fan of Coke, Fanta or McDonald's, but since I started boycotting them I have realized how much I don't like them. I don't miss them at all, and I don't know what keeps drawing people back to that crap

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

McDonalds is the same everywhere (Although there are inter country variations im told) and a sandwich is OK and the price is OK, and a lot of people have positive associations with the place from all their marketing to children and the McDonald's play area being some of the most kid friendly areas in deprived communities. None of this is to defend McDonalds, it's slop for hogs and their marketing to children is predatory.

Some of my friends used to get their cheeseburgers for lunch when studying, since they were pretty cheap and convenient. After the war in Ukraine began they raised the price by 50% over 3 months. So now you may as well go somewhere with better food

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[–] whatnots@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

tried making some siopao for the first time and it was a bit of a struggle but i hope that they at least taste good luffy-exhausted

[–] whatnots@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

my partner likes it!!!!!! doggirl-thumbsup

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A guy was hammering on the bus door trying to get in as the bus drove off, I told the bus driver someone wanted to get on and he responded by literally saying "I guess he's going to be late".
HE WAS TOUCHING THE BUS.
Now I'm sitting here fuming at a bus driver.

[–] RION@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I wish libidinous still had the bee element from the noun form. Kinda lame without it tbh

[–] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Saitō Kōhei is right β€” Marx (and thus Marxists, until Saitō arrived) was completely wrong to assert "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of the development of the productive forces."

How did Engels let this get published in 1848? Right, he was a Stalinist.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Honestly I can't stand Saito and can't understand how so many people take Marx and the Anthropocene so seriously it's genuine shit.

Less is More by Jason Hickel is actually surprisingly good and extremely easy to read though

[–] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because they're Marxist degrowthers, not Marxist degrowthers. They want Marx to agree with degrowth instead of applying the Marxist method to ecology. Saitō is a figurehead for this sort of thing.

I've already read some of Hickel's papers. They're easy to understand, scientific, and productively advance the debate on degrowth. Would reading Less is More achieve something that reading more of his original research won't? Because I don't want to read an entire book for a worse understanding of something that can be gained through reading a few papers. Saitō already got me once.

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[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My Ace Trainer boyfriend just got back from his Hoenn League trip and I couldn't help but notice all of the badges he acquired were from the woman gym leaders there, but none from the men.

He fucked the dudes instead of battling

[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh my god, I was sneak-peeking through his Pokedex while he's in the shower and I found a PC Box filled with Lopunny.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

you should turn him into the child of our future Omelas

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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I have a little old baby truck for supposedly making my life easier with projects, but I went like 7 months without starting it and driving it around (a long story), so the less than 1 year old battery died. like full drain. I spent the entire morning looking up the various hardware I can buy/use to remedy this specific situation (multi stage charger, 10A) as well as prevent it in the future (2-3A maintainer).

my current place doesn't have a garage or a car port or even a goddamn outlet on the porch, so I guess I'm charging this thing inside the house now that I've pulled the battery out. if I keep the windows open, that's well ventilated right?

this is so America car brained, but one day I just want to have a really simple shed that has like 3 bays worth of space, all my tools neatly organized, power outlets, wifi, a little dumpy computer I can easily watch videos on, and all the bullshit so I can just mostly fix my own dumbass problems without turning my living space into a chaos dungeon.

[–] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I work/study/do research in healthcare and I've been recently thinking about how much of modern medicine/healthcare is based on the guarantee of antibiotics working properly. On the other hand, there are more and more resistant bacteria floating around the communities, ie. outside the ICU where they usually come from.

Antibiotic resistance and development is yet another barrier that capitalism fundamentally cannot overcome, regardless of how many reforms you make. Research for new drugs take a long time and is very expensive. Along with this, the correct way of using antibiotics is avoiding overuse or just reducing the use in general, specially of new drugs that bacteria can't resist yet. That means that companies can't expect to make a profit out of any new drug that they develop, since trying to use them as little as possible is the rational way.

In other words, the profit motive is unable to create new antibiotics in the manner that the world needs right now, let alone in the much worse future. If we lose antibiotics, modern medicine mostly comes to a halt. For example, say goodbye to surgeries and also to your little niece that got an ear infection that every kid gets at least once. Tooth extractions becomes a very high risk procedure, too.

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Caffeine not hitting the way it usually does these past couple days. Ughhhhcatgirl-flop

I've consumed no caffeine today for this very reason

My normal days have several cups of coffee and half a scoop of pre workout so that's probably not the best

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

A small child on the bus is super impressed by an expensive Audi... because the numbers on its number plate are a palindrome.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vape pen but instead of weed juice I fill it with pickle juice so I can get my fix any time anywhere

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[–] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Saitō Kōhei is right β€” Marx (and thus Marxists, until Saitō arrived) was completely wrong to assert "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of the development of the productive forces."

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

I actually want more chemicals in the water that make more frogs more gay

[–] MikeyChaz@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Tried to make romantic breakfast bed for my gf who had a bad week but I burned some pancakes and now she feels even worse. I’m like joker

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[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Great-aunt is over and spreading extremely obviously fake stories about people from American reality TV shows and celebrities being killed by other famous people and them all having bodies found in secret basements. Which I'm assuming are from AI YT channels.

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What happens if you make baba ganoush with peanut butter instead of tahini

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weekly Dr Who rant, spoilers within

"I used to call it the world wide web, until humans named something far uglier that."

The Doctor just wants to chill out and gossip with his mates. Unfortunately the barber shop they hang out in has been stolen be Anansi who's using stories to power some sorta giant, cyborg spider ship. Cue a coup attempt among the gods and a reunion with a jilted lover.

What I liked:

  • the way they tied the way the map of the escape route through the maze was hidden into an interesting piece of African history was cool.

  • the design of the engine/control room was rad.

  • Dr Who acknowledging Earth outsida the Anglosphere is rare, I want to see more of it.

What I didn't like:

  • GIANT CGI SPIDER, it looked terrible.

  • Anansi, it's all very well to use gods like Bastet or Loki who aren't worshipped in earnest anymore but Anansi is a figure in a religion actively being practiced and that feels weird to me.

Overall:

I liked it. With more hits than misses so far imho Dr Who is slowly building a winning streak. Tune in next week when they throw that in the shitter with a Eurovision Song Contest parody.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anyone have experience consolidating defaulted student loans? I'm having an issue with the application and being pingponged to different phone numbers, all of which have long ass waits and annoying phone trees. I just want to not get my shit garnished.

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