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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Being vegan and eating out is impossible, like, everything has meat, and what doesn't have any meat, has dairy, or fish. Gadamnit I just want to eat
Helps to know the place ahead of time also helps for me being broke af so I don't go out and just make my own vegan slop.
It's a meme for a reason but vegans get stuck eating a lot of french fries when people go out.
There is a restaurant/bar in the city I used to live in, very punk and a little dive bar-ish. Anyway, their menu was full vegan but you'd never guess and it isn't advertised as such. I only figured it out when I realized none of their food had any animal stuff, like not the cheese sticks (it was vegan cheese) nothing.
I've worked at vegan restaurants and the battle between advertising to vegans and like trying to normalize eating at a vegan place is a tough river to row. And you don't wanna go full vegsn crowd for a place cause like...a lot of vegans are absolute weirdo new age creeps
Yep... Going out with friends is a challenge. Sounds like a really cool place, hope I can find one like that