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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If the USSR were in the mix today then shit would be so different. They'd have invented a space vacation destination. FOSS would make silicone valley impossible. China would have a buddy. America couldn't bully people. The world would be a little bit happier
I do wonder how 9/11 and the iraq war might've gone down if the USSR held on but had to lick it's wounds for a decade after 1991. The USSR condemned the Gulf War in real life, it just fell apart after that.
I really think we mightve had where China is at now 15 years earlier with the USSR if it had managed to navigate the crisis successfully. Maybe it had to have the coup successful in '91 I dunno.
I'm learning that the complexities run deeper than the jokes I'm flinging around give it credit for. Turns out there were ways the USSR was... le bad! and a couple ways China was... le bad! Far be it from me to pass substantial judgement on A(existed)S, but it's heartbreaking when you see gestures vaguely
Yeah but also Russians would have never gotten to enjoy Pizza Hut so I think we might live in the world that's best for everyone.