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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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[-] 9to5@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Everytime we do a Thread about Marxism someone should ask. Is this about Pitbull AKA Mr. Worldwide ?

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

discussion of MMA (consensual, honorable violence)I got served some slop that turned out to not be slop. There's this Chinese MMA promotion called JCK MMA. It doesn't get much, if any coverage in the west. If it did I would have seen this sequence before. It happened over a year ago and it's some of the most mixed mixed-martial-arts I've ever seen.

In JCK Fight Night 83 fighter Zewang defeats fighter Zhikang Zhao with a triangle choke, but not before a breathtaking sequence. For reference, people go fucking insane, and rightfully so, for Mighty Mouse doing a suplex armbar which combines wrestling and BJJ[1]. People know exactly what you're talking about when you mention Ben Askren getting got with a flying knee as well[2]. Well, Zewang combines muay thai, judo, and BJJ for one of the most beautiful sequences I've ever seen. He exploits a dogshit double leg by going for a flying knee, but his opponent doesn't stop. Zhao keeps moving forward so Zewang follows up the showstopping knee with a showstopping uchi mata. Zhao keeps going and tries to scramble up. Zewang goes "uhm, fuck you!" and jumps into a triangle which finishes the fucking match!!

I don't feel comfortable posting instagram links, but the clip is in zewang_mma 's instagram. It's a thumbnail where he's in blue pants kneeing someone in red pants. The one without the text is the full clip.

People love to talk about how they would just do this and just do that if they were in a fight, but if you're up against a tough guy it may not be the end of the fight. Zewang was up against an elite fighter with no quit in him. So he had to literally stop the blood to his brain to get him to chill - nothing else worked. What's crazy to me is that I feel like this clip should be famous. This belongs in the canon right next to Mighty Mouse, Diaz vs McGregor 1, and Cerone's 4 piece. It's such a shame about amerikkka because we should be able to share shit like this.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOg-wY3cISg [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAgr33aBIg

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago
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[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Hercules the animated series was a trip sometimes, the shear amount of celebrity voices they had on call always astounded me. There was also the Aladdin animated series and the tarzan on but hercules was the only one that I sought out to watch in my adulthood. Getting into a mood to look up for any retrospectives now on it, there's bound to be one nerd out there who watched it and thought about it as much as I have.

[-] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

One of my favorite songs rn is so random. Its from a Indiana Jones gameboy game, but it slaps hard

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gHcFHAACyWs

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago
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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

For one project I have 30 minutes of meetings for every 20 minutes of work, I’m one of only 2 technical staff. This just seems like poor planning. Ah well.

[-] pierre_delecto@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Labor Day / IWD, Marx' birthday, Victory Day... lot to love this time of year

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] determinism2@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

i fucking love harold melvin and the blue notes man

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago
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[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

I'm kinda bad at actually learning the names of people in bands. Probably did a faux pas the other day when I was like, "oh, so that's your name to the vocalist of Apes of the State.

To be fair, I absolutely love Apes of the State and love April's voice, but I just was sort of mentally calling her Ms. ApesoftheState for the past several years.

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

peppino-holy-shit me realizing that i read the question totally wrong and now i have to fight 100 gorillas bare handed

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