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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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.
I want to quit my job
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.
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
Is any Kamen Rider any good as an adult? I’m in the mood for something light media-wise so I am curious about this series
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.
Vape pen but instead of weed juice I fill it with pickle juice so I can get my fix any time anywhere
I actually want more chemicals in the water that make more frogs more gay
NSFW: DIY woodworking, frank BDSM and rough sex talk, and Christian blasphemy.
Last sunday I made an accessory to bondage play, with a sacrilege twist. It’s since been stress-tested and it’s holding together extremely well even for a prototype.
It started with an idea I got from a friend who’s into succubus-fantasy play. She said she’d had a fantasy of playing a succubus who seduces a humble priest. I asked what if the priest turns it around, and “exorcises” the succubus by forcing them to wear a huge cross while the priest dominates them?
I had some spare good-quality 25mm hardwood dowel and various metal attachment hardware kicking around. This was the concept, and once I laid them on the floor I knew instantly that I hit on a fun idea.
Assembly was very simple. A bit of work with my new favourite tool, wood glue and dowel pins, lots of rounds of sanding and staining with a body-safe stain, and fitting the metal hardware and it was done. Super easy.
At first I was planning to do solid black, but as I did the multiple rounds of sanding and staining, I found I really liked the weathered look.
Of course I wanted the design to be symmetrical, so that the cross could either be right-side-up or upside-down depending on the play mood. It’s roughly 30cm long excluding the metal hardware.
I’ll believe the ceasefire when I see it
A small child on the bus is super impressed by an expensive Audi… because the numbers on its number plate are a palindrome.
I guess my gf is out getting a tattoo and i hope she doesn’t pick the dumb looking one (Sam Lake drew some spiral with an arrow pointing to the middle going “you are here” and i think it’s a terrible, terrible tattoo idea because it looks like a child or a dementia patient attempting to draw a clock drew it, just this thin spiral drawn by a clearly unsteady hand) but i guess we’ll see!
We finally got the capitol at my job consolidated. Or in other words, I don’t have to drive from place to place anymore and I can bike to work again.
It’s been wonderful.
Going back and watching Rogue One after Andor, it’s so weird. Much more star war than andor
Had a dream Nintendo Switch released an emulator for a console I never heard of. And on this console was some kinda’ Ranger X-like game 2D run 'n gun thing where you had a bunch of different characters and pods you could choose between and customize and you and the pod could combine or partially combine, for different weapon configurations and stuff, it was awesome. It also had like Ace Attorney-like cutscenes between stages.
I thought, “the people must know of this game” and was showing it off at some get together. My sister and a woman who was like Amy Ryan but with brown hair and short and tan came up and I was showing her too. I gave her the Switch and she kept bending it without breaking the screen to “get a better grip” and she gave me vibes like she wasn’t super stable or wanting to hear someone tell her what to do so I tried being chill about it but I also didn’t want her breaking my Switch. My sister got mad at me for some reason and took a fee steps away and wouldn’t talk, neither would the Amy Ryan-lookalike, though she was still playing the game extremely suboptimally. She wasn’t even using the transformation mechanic.
And during it a puffy stray cat came by and sat on my shoulder. We were sitting on an old, sunken-in couch until they left with just me with the Switch and the cat on my shoulder. I called out to them but they wouldn’t come back from the crowd of people, asking what I did wrong.
Then I woke up.
