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Working Class Calendar
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!workingclasscalendar@lemmy.world is a working class calendar inspired by the now (2023-06-25) closed reddit r/aPeoplesCalendar aPeoplesCalendar.org, where we can post daily events.
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Community Rules
1. It's against the rules the apology for fascism, racism, chauvinism, imperialism, capitalism, sexism, ableism, ageism, and heterosexism and attitudes according to these isms.
2. The posts should be about past working class events or about the community.
3. Cross-posting is welcomed.
4. Be polite.
5. Any language is welcomed.
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I disagree with your interpretation of Marx. Gold rush era Australia is not an example of a stage where workers owned the means of production, Gold is a raw material not a value-added product. Under Marx it's "value-adding", labour, that gets exploited by the Capitalist class. That was his main usage of working class.
"Working class" has a culturally colloquial meaning of "anyone who works". Over the years the colloquial meaning has expanded to include areas of cities which are poor or culturally poor. This would include all sorts of people Marx (and many other class systems) wouldn't define as working class.
ahh so this community isn't strictly about the working class calendar, got ya.
None of this matters as I've already unsubscribed. Thanks for your work modding, and good luck with your mix of calendar dates of what you've decided qualifies as important dates about, "working people" doing things including occasionally historical massacres.