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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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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

@Lussy@hexbear.net talked with my old neighbor who just got back to the island after a NYC trip and she was talking about how she hadn't eaten rice in a week. Asked her why she didn't try eating Chinese, sushi, Indian food, or anything that should've been available over there. "Nah, a mi no me gusta la comida rara" ??? Why even travel?

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Today I finally saw John Mulaney’s face in a standup special after years of hearing his name but never seeing what he looked like.

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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Won my Street Fighter 6 league match for the week, barely default-dance

Fuck Guile, all my homies hate Guile

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[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm on the beach wearing my flippy-floppy's

you in the office straight flipping copies

spoilersorry if anyone's at work atm this isn't directed at you I only got home a couple hours ago myself

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[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

I’m silent because I have nothing to say. Not because I’m trying to be mysterious.

[-] blipblip@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Some weirdo keeps advertising crypto coins on the white board in an office I work out of, I keep erasing it. It's clearly getting to them and now it's not just a list of their fav coins, they've started writing shit about how crypto is good because there won't be any more Bitcoin but we'll never stop printing dollars and scared money doesn't make money lmao

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[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Ever made yourself sleepy playing some music? I was so happy to work on some songs and started getting drowsy in the middle of them.

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

There has been a vibe shift

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[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
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[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Not to bring up old business but why were we calling Harris by her first name? Was just sexism or was the DNC trying to play up diversity?

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[-] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Andor spoilers


Seeing chuds compare the Ghorman Massacre to January 6th is quite something frothingfash.

Anyway, I fucking loved how Syril’s whole arc - a liberal failson obsessed with law, order, and rooting out “outside agitators” - ends with him realizing, too late, that he was just a pawn helping lay the groundwork for a genocide and resource extraction on Ghorman… right before getting casually shot in the head by a Ghor he had betrayed.

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Goddamn, the Nuggets and Thunder both look horrible. It's like a competition to see who can play the most like ass.

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[-] MikeyChaz@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I’ll believe the ceasefire when I see it

[-] Coca_Cola_but_Commie@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

The last bootleg feed I knew of for Trueanon (jumble.top I believe) seems to be down. A sad day when I can't get podcast slop for free but there's no world in which I am paying $5 a month for Trueanon, a podcast. Easy come easy go.

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just watched Andor s1e6i was not expecting to be rooting for commies with space-AKs to reenact the plot of Goldfinger while an indigenous group that is currently undergoing proletarianization celebrates their last pre-industrial ritual but that's what happened and it was pretty cool.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jokic made all the other players earn their paychecks for once. Very entertaining game.

[-] WhatAnOddUsername@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I have a really dumb question, one which I assume has been answered somewhere before, so feel free to either link me to that answer or copy and paste it here.

Whenever the subject of Substack comes up -- like when someone I follows links to their Substack page -- someone always mentions that "Substack supports Nazis". I don't usually read things on Substack and I haven't written anything on it, so it never became a dilemma for me, but what are people referring to when they say this? Do they actively support Nazis financially, while suppressing non-Nazis? Or is it that they allow Nazis to use their site instead of actively removing them? Do their policies, or the enforcement of their policies, disproportionately favour fascists?

As long as I'm asking, what are people using as an alternative to Substack?

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[-] MikeyChaz@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Walter white if he wasn’t possessive incel

[-] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Saitō Kōhei is right — 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.

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[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

it is may 8 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

There's a cockroach in my sink, I'm afraid of it but don't wanna hurt it so just put a cloth hanging in there so it crawls out.

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[-] spaceman@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Any other engineers on the 'bear?

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