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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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

kitty-cri-potato nobody looked at the cool video about pantograph mills I posted

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

was it a waffle iron vid?

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the cool part is the tool more than the product though

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

I do enjoy that channel

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

he should've used runnier syrup

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I watched it! I just didn't have anything to add, really, because I'm not remotely handy in that way (a lot of the technical details went over my head), but it was super neat learning about the pantograph and seeing the dude troubleshoot things. I'm always blown away by the ingenuity of engineers in the days before integrated circuits and how much they were able to accomplish through pure mechanics (the secret is often cams! So many cams!). And I love that it was all in service of something silly--that's most of the projects I work on, too, although I haven't done anything nearly as difficult or cool as this one.

I'm not that interested in learning machining, personally, but seeing projects like this makes me want to get back into learning electronics (like soldering and designing circuits and stuff) so I can build things on my own. Kinda hit a wall and got frustrated and gave up, but...if at first you don't succeed, try try again.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

The coolest part, for me, was how a pantograph mill plus a 3d printer makes an ersatz CNC mill. That synergy between two technologies that didn't practically coexist in time is amazing.

The pantograph even replicated the faceting of the STL!

Try tinkering with microcontrollers, it's an easy on ramp to electronics hobby projects