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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what are "dry" and "wet" here?!?
If you know it becomes less funny but more stupid to hear someone say they did 12 hours of dry.
ruining the joke
spoiler also CW for dead stuff "Dry" is a study hall with cadavers, "wet" is where they store the cadavers while they're being prepared for exhibition or if someone fucked up preparation. In "dry" hall you can sit and look at cadavers in neat little glass showcases. In "wet" you can take up pieces of cadavers and poke and prod them yourself, but things are less neatly organised. So if I wanted to read up on arm anatomy I could see a well prepared specimen with the nerves marked and organised on an app in "dry "hall, or I could go down to "wet" hall, grab a pair of tweezers and a slab and poke around an actual arm :::
thank you, I was so confused
That was the point tbf. I just realised that the way med students speak has little relation to normal language.