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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Is "YouTube poop" art?
Is ASMR art?
Are geocities webpages art?
Is computer code art? Is GitHub an art gallery?
Art tends to need intentionality behind it, like the person making it or editing it or remixing it needed to make a statement or just make something they thought was neat. Hence the difference between a recipt from someones random groceries vs someone intentionally buying stuff to make a statement with the receipt. Or War and Peace is about a lot of things, but it's NOT a recipe for chicken noodle soup lol. Also it cuts out animals that don't seem to have that same intentional aesthetic sense even if its recognizes grey areas like dolphins blowing bubble rings or elephants painting whatever - contrast a squirrel running across a piano from a kid trying (maybe failing) to bang out something fun on the same piano
In that sense, yeah YouTube Poop as silly and stupid as it is IS art. ASMR could be art, unless it's unintentional although the person who recorded it or edited it to include ASMR as a context is doing some kind of art, some geocities pages are absolutely art! Some were just lists of links (like old profs .edu pages lol). Computer code can absolutely be art, some of the stuff people comment is neat - I knew a guy who had a shakespeare snippet in every comment explaining what a function did. People who do golf code are doing art, BrainFuck is art, etc. If its purely functional, it's probably not art although I could see an argument for it.
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