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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Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure to announce I have a job again! Not a good job, but Iβll have a paycheck!
Happy for the paycheck! Sorry it's a job
Letβs go. Itβs gonna start to suck pretty quick, but having income and structure to your day feels good at least for a while.
Yeah, itβs still in Ohio and just a hair above minimum wage but Iβm just happy to make a paycheck again.
I have some interviews for some other places, one of them being a seasonal camp position and another an internship for recent grads. But at the very least I have temporary employment and I want to take a class at a community college over the summer.
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Sucks its not a great job, but at least you got one finally
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