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 deliver groceries for Walmart Spark, and last night I took one last order because it was going towards my house. I had so many problems with shopping for it, and then I get to my car and load the address and the delivery note says, “Bring inside house”.
I’ve had this note before and it’s always some asshole who wants to treat me like their butler because they paid $10 for delivery. It’s a huge time waste compared to leaving it on the stoop. “Put the milk in the fridge and put this here, and that there”. I’m not even supposed to go inside, but when I tell them that I get, “Everyone else does it” and arguing ends up taking more time than just doing it.
Anyway, I get there and it’s the sweetest little old lady named Doris. She was leaning on her walker, waiting at the door for me. She just got back from visiting her kids out of state and didn’t have any food in the house. Brought her food in and talked to her for a few minutes.
It kind of made me sad because she shouldn’t be living alone. I don’t know the situation, though. Maybe her kids have tried to get her to move in with them and she doesn’t want to.