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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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago

weekly Dr Who rant, spoilers within

"I used to call it the world wide web, until humans named something far uglier that."

The Doctor just wants to chill out and gossip with his mates. Unfortunately the barber shop they hang out in has been stolen be Anansi who's using stories to power some sorta giant, cyborg spider ship. Cue a coup attempt among the gods and a reunion with a jilted lover.

What I liked:

the way they tied the way the map of the escape route through the maze was hidden into an interesting piece of African history was cool.
the design of the engine/control room was rad.
Dr Who acknowledging Earth outsida the Anglosphere is rare, I want to see more of it.

What I didn't like:

GIANT CGI SPIDER, it looked terrible.
Anansi, it's all very well to use gods like Bastet or Loki who aren't worshipped in earnest anymore but Anansi is a figure in a religion actively being practiced and that feels weird to me.

Overall:

I liked it. With more hits than misses so far imho Dr Who is slowly building a winning streak. Tune in next week when they throw that in the shitter with a Eurovision Song Contest parody.