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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 3 points 1 hour ago

Dude. Russia is no longer a socialist country. Half a century of Marxist analysis doesn't apply to modern day Russia. It is an autocratic oligarchy now

From the great minds of Lemmy

Your honor, it seems like a mistake to use the law to criticize what my client was doing. The law describes lawful behavior, but my client was engaging in criminal behavior.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

Goofus Celtics lose two games at home by giving up twenty point leads late in the game

Gallant Thunder respond to a game one loss by winning game two by over forty points

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago

Makin' spaghetti!

Many years ago I learned to check if spaghetti is done by flinging a noodle at the window and seeing if it sticks. Now as an adult I still repeat this ritual, but I always wonder why I bother when it cooks in the same amount of time every time.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

big if trueI'm gay and my dick is small

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

No need to gloat sadness

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

me raising one eyebrow in skepticism as my steam copy of Oblivion 2007 updates itself for the first time in years owl-pissed

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 5 points 2 hours ago
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I've seen a lot of comments over the years about how the scene where Anakin is talking politics with padme in the pretty naboo field to be his showing to support fascism. He supports a dictatorship but is clearly too himbo to have any further elaboration. Even a dictatorship is going a bit far, he just says someone one wise should be around to make senators agree on stuff. That's basically just a guy with executive power who can overrule deadlocks based strictly on what he said. That's not particularly abnormal

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

In that Dark Vader destroyed the jedi order, a corrupt and worthless order of cops, he was correct. Ask the spice slaves of tattoene if the replacing the corript senators with one corrupt emperor actually made their lives worse. I think not.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

I appreciated the detail on season 1 of Andor thar he was displaced as a child by The Republic. This was prior to the empire and the same shit was happening

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's when he says the senators or whoever should be forced to agree which Padme (the liberal subject we identify with in the west) says isn't democratic. Someone wise leading would be great, but what matters is who holds power and how. You can be wise as the day is long, but if you don't hold power you ain't got bupkis. Contextually, we know Anakin becomes Darth Vader and helps install the Empire - which colours how people view his thoughts.

He seems less of a political/history changer until he becomes Vader. He probably would be the political equivalent of McConaughey as Anakin the War Hero Jedi of Prophecy, who could very easily become a catspaw for a political class interested in dictatorship or oligarchy or show/shame democracy (notwithstanding how "democratic" bourgeois democracy is in the first place, even if it is progressive compared to feudalism).

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'm just taking the conversation and anakin as a character up to that point and removing the context we have from other movies cause 1)it's more fun and B) he isn't thinking about Palpatine at the time or at least if he is, it's in the abstract. I have no idea how the galactic senate functions as a political body or specifically ehat the issues are during the prequels which makes this a problem to unravel but I think my conclusion that anakin is just kind of a big dum dum holds the most water

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

Watching a short documentary thing about Alex Honnold climbing a bunch of cracks in Angola. There was a scary and unnerving scene where he got an IV. They should have content warning for needles

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 5 hours ago

My manager and head of my dept like and trust me, which means I get all of the important work. Unfortunately all of the important work sucks.

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Life is hell I don't like it.

[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Boomers in my life are asking I e-mail everything to them: music, ebooks, manuals, etc. because they refuse to learn how to physically transfer a file. It's so annoying.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

how to open pdf

Literally just walk to the other room in the house, dipshit. The thing you want's right here on a HDD. Don't need to send it to Google and then back to you.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

Let's go Mariners baby luv da Mariners

tony-cheer βšΎπŸ”±

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 6 hours ago

Turns out the veggie dog I’ve been calling street wheat is made of soy protein oooaaaaaaauhhh

Give me seitan based hot dogs! Give me street wheat!!

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

As a stereotypical white cishet dude I genuinely feel like my life is worth absolutely nothing and nothing I'll ever do is ever going to make me be worthy of love, I genuinely don't know how anyone who isn't a white cishet dude actually does it

[–] lurker_supreme@hexbear.net 14 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Hexbear.net is like the level 1 boss that we need to defeat to reach the next stage of Lemmy’s growth. They have a bombastic opening attack, but upon closer analysis they also have gaping vulnerabilities.

This tagline..... Fucking freeze-gamer

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

I love our taglines lmao

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago

They want to penetrate my gaping vulnerability?

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's the day of the big "trans women in fencing" Senate subcommittee show. I will not be subjecting myself to that shit but I hope everyone involved other than the USA Fencing guy dies.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago

USA Fencing doesn't even receive federal funds how you gonna do a subpoena over this

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Is watching The Pianist (2002) worth watching these days despite Polanski being a piece of shit garbage that never should have been allowed to make movies? I remember watching it when I was a kid and really liking it, and have been thinking about it lately because IIRC it depicts the Warsaw ghetto uprising. But obviously I was a kid so I wasn't sure if it was worth another watch with my partner who hasn't seen it. I pirate most anything I watch ofc

Ive also never seen Schindler's List so I think we will watch that soon. We are on a WW2 / antinazi kick after just watching inglorious basterds

I'll watch it and let you know if it's safe-viewing.

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[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

I want to watch Andor but I can't stop watching every version of Star Trek. Are you able to pretend it's just a weird alternate timeline and the empire is a corrupt federation?

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 1 points 52 minutes ago

The empire does have something in common with the Terran empire in that theyre human supremacists.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago

I guess you could

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago

Danny DeVito in a Trump biopic

Danny DeCheeto

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

AndorWhy the hell did Dedera let skinny ass syril choke her like that? surely she could lay him out easily? and hold his own against cassian wtf,

but damned if I won't miss him lol

edit: holy shit they did the euromaidian false flag snipers

Gotta give mon 5 mins to do the American anti trump lib ''consensus reality' spiel, glad it wasn't overdone

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

I had to look up what you're talking about and feel like I got dumber

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I got a spam text that said

Do you have any vacation plans? It’s a great way to relax!

Which sounds like PokΓ©mon NPC dialogue.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago

I'm thinking of what my NPC dialogue would be. Probably something like "You may not be able to tell//but I'm holding in a fart"

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[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago

Had a final round interview today. Really getting scared, because I haven't heard anything, when I heard that I'm going to the final round minutes after the last interview...

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