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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I may have finally gotten a job, but it’s a seasonal position so I’m making an effort to still apply and take the odd interview.
Does anyone else hate when rejection emails always have the “we received soooo many applications” bullshit? Like is it a demoralization technique, how is this necessary?
To me it reads “We’re spoiled for choice. Fuck you.” and people wonder why there’s a youth unemployment problem? Because you need to meet 100% of the qualifications and beat out hundreds if not thousands for any given job.
Things like that always bring me back to a single line from The Oblongs of all things, where a lying character is like "Hm? Sorry, I was just thinking about my hundreds of boyfriends"
It's so you know just competitive the job market is. Everyone wants to work for us
I really do hate that though.