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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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Getting into an argument with someone on reddit is a case of is this a stupid or a fash. I hate this game and yet I keep playing 
I've had a lot of fun and frustration over the last 24 hours in that thread about imperialism here. It really does make you confront how much worse education has gotten when one side of the argument is citing Lenin and the other is arguing in terms of "if it quacks like a duck and it looks like a duck."
Yeah, for me it was arguing with a local on my town's subreddit who's asking if white supremacy is it really that bad in our town. Probably also a 
so doing my best not to just yell at them but I'm feeling exhausted all the same 
I've been listening to Roadside Picnic by The Strugatsky Brothers. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Robert Forster is the narrator as he's an actor I have a soft spot for, and a great character actor can really change an audiobook into a rich experience (like John Malkovich reading Breakfast of Champions or Keith David reading Tolstoy's Master and Man.)
I'm really enjoying it so far, and the conversational nature of the dialogue works really well in the audiobook form, feels like just being told an interesting story.
While this is obviously the basis of Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979), reading this it feels like Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) cribbed really hard from this.
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Link 1:
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Something something we'll get a new pope before gta vi
Did trump confuse India-Pakistan with Israel-Palestine
New Retro Game Mechanics Explained video just dropped, sure to be a banger (can't watch it yet):
Can't finish setting up my computer until my coworker gives me his old keyboard like he said but he keeps forgetting it or working from home 
I don't want to pay for one if I can get one for free but if he doesn't bring it tomorrow I'm taking the L and buying one
A good keyboard really goes a long way to the experience, at least in terms of ergonomics. Find something with some decent wrist support at least. (If it's financially feasible for you)
The one he may or may not be giving me is supposed to be pretty good, he spent like ~$10,000 on his computer setup so it should be amazing but the one ill get if he never brings it comes with a wrist rest so I think it'd okay? 
I have figured out why doctors go insane. Here is a translation of a real conversation:
1: Oh yeah I'm gonna do like 8 hours of dry then take a nap
2: Oh yeah I did like 12 hours of dry yesterday and two hours of wet
1: You benefit from wet?
2: Kind of. But mostly it's more fun to spot wet. Cozier, you know?
1: Wet is just a waste of time IMO (Each litter pronounced and emphasised). Plus there's way more people in dry
2: Yeah you don't have to fight to see anything in wet
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.
Doctors are Like That because they do too much school. Every doctor I've met at work is weird and I swear to god it's the 10 years of uni and 2 of residency.
Too much school is a good point. This is the only way you end up having honest to goodness adults treat school lockers as a status symbol. But also people at the humanities campus can at least talk normally. You don't hear "I did 12 hours of dry" or gossipping about that time the student bar put detergent in the coffee 3 years ago on a daily basis there.
I'm kinda bad at actually learning the names of people in bands. Probably did a faux pas the other day when I was like, "oh, so that's your name to the vocalist of Apes of the State.
To be fair, I absolutely love Apes of the State and love April's voice, but I just was sort of mentally calling her Ms. ApesoftheState for the past several years.
Rule for self: Do not vocally stim in public by singing Geordie Greep songs.
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I'm writing a character who is a communist in a Russian-inspired world, and I'd like a subtly communist surname for him. I think something like Dzhugashvili is a bit too on the nose, and since most westerners would never have heard of it, they would probably ask me to explain why, and I can't be bothered to explain that its Stalin's name. Also this guy is a big dork and really not analogous to Stalin at all. So does anyone have any suggestions?
Name him Shavarsh Karapetyan after that soviet diver who, while on a run, saw a school bus full of children fall into a reservoir before diving in and saving every single one
Here are some communist-esque last names:
-Krause
-Olesha (coined allegedly the stalinist phrase βwriters are the engineers of the human soulβ)
-Stakhanov (too on the nose)
-Mukhin (Vera Mukhina was a very famed artist)
-Pravda
-Prytytski
-Stuchka
-Zagorsky
-Armand (leninβs gf)
-Bierut
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Logging onto this site when i see a relevant meme every few months
missed you
WELCOME BACK PRESIDENT 
Who to support in the saltiron war? Salt or iron?
Visited the palace for an invitation thing and got within like 15m of the king in his back garden yesterday.
The buffet was shit. I've had better sandwiches. The desserts and sweets were good though.
Like, the british king?
That's wild, you're probably the communist that has gotten the closest to him
Also, you could've done something really funny 
No waaaaay there's definitely been others.
I have pictures I'm not sure if I should share them though. Maybe in a post this week.
Also, you could've done something really funny
What would it achieve though? Can't think of anything other than it being really really funny.
I was too distracted by the sandwich fillings anyway, you ever seen a peas, broad bean and mint puree sarnie with egg mayo? lmao
Having an existential crisis rn because I may have to choose not to pursue my masters in protest of my universities position on global politics... I would really like to talk this through with someone if they have the capacity 
Could you not transfer to another school?
I'm nearing 40 and can't afford to move, and their masters program is very highly regarded. So for me, it's either go back to school there or don't. But my profession pays poverty wages; with my extensive experience I would be extremely lucky to even make 50k. Ive BEEN making 37k pretax for years. So I would likely have to try to break into another career path and I just don't know if I can handle all that
Do you think your refusal to enter the masters program has any chance of changing their politics? Are you organized with other people who could participate in an academic boycott? In other words, will this change anything except your own life? (For the worse)
Wait, you're telling me there was only 1 war in 1812?
If you were born in 2001 or later, you have never known a year of peace where America isn't bombing some other country, occupying some other country, invading another country, arming another country in their wars, etc.
Asking Reddit βwould inflation would be a bad thing if we got pay rises to match it?β just to feel something
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someone's friends get first dibs on newly printed money
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unless it's perfectly distributed across the world then someone's work is getting diluted.
2.5) if it's perfectly distributed then why print?
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they did that for decades and we ended up here
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makes BRICS look real real nice
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less confidence in fiat is bullish for Bitcoin
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Christians 
me to my dad's girlfriends
I heard Vijay Prashad talking about leftists have to be more likable and do less of the infighting shit because it's unappealing to outsiders and I'm just not sure I agree that's the problem. It's usually the easiest thing to point to as if we just were more approachable more people would want to join a communist organization.
I think it comes down to power and material impact. Arguing and disagreeing over small shit is done by all parties and yet they still have power because they hold onto it and wield it with ease.
One thing he did say that struck a nerve is he was talking about China being a serious country. The imperial core is not serious, but that doesn't mean our effort to organize and build solidarity within the working class shouldn't be taken seriously. The Black Panthers are great example of this. They were serious about what they were doing and that is why when they built power and people trusted them.
This is also more of a self reflection in what I could work on as I'm organizing.
Good morning, I hope Friedrich Merz puts a gun in his mouth