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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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.