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Engels, Frederick, socialist, born in Barmen on Nov. 28, 1820, the son of a well-to-do manufacturer. Took up commerce, but already at an early age began propagating radical and socialist ideas in newspaper articles and speeches. After working for some time as a clerk in Bremen and serving for one year as an army volunteer in Berlin in 1842, he went for two years to Manchester, where his father was co-owner of a cotton mill.

In 1844 he worked for the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher published by Arnold Ruge and Karl Marx in Paris. In 1844 he returned to Barmen and in 1845 addressed communist meetings organised by Moses Hess and Gustav K?ttgen in Elberfeld. Then, until 1848, he lived alternately in Brussels and Paris; in 1846 he joined, with Marx, the secret Communist League, a predecessor of the International, and represented the Paris communities at the two League congresses in London in 1847. On the League's instructions, he wrote, jointly with Marx, the Communist Manifesto addressed to the "working men of all countries", which was published shortly before the February revolution [1848] (a new edition appeared in Leipzig in 1872).

In 1848 and 1849 E. worked in Cologne for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by Marx, and after its suppression he contributed, in 1850, to the Politisch-oekonomische Revue. He witnessed the uprisings in Elberfeld, the Palatinate and Baden and took part in the Baden-Palatinate campaign as aide-de-camp in Willich's volunteer corps. After the suppression of the Baden uprising E. returned as a refugee to England and re-entered his father's firm in Manchester in 1850.

He retired from business in 1869 and has lived in London since 1870. He assisted his friend Marx in providing support for the international labour movement, which arose in 1864, and in carrying on social-democratic propaganda. E. was Secretary for Italy, Spain and Portugal on the General Council of the International. He advocates Marxian communism in opposition to both "petty bourgeois" Proudhonist and nihilistic Bakuninist anarchism. His main work is The Condition of the Working-Class in England (Leipzig, 1845; new edition, Stuttgart, 1892), which, although one-sided, possesses undeniable scientific value. His Anti-Dühring is a polemic of considerable size (2nd ed. Zurich, 1886). E.'s other published works include Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (Stuttgart, 1888), The Origin of the Family Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (4th ed., Berlin, 1891). E. also published Vols 2 and 3 of Karl Marx's Capital and the 3rd and 4th editions of Vol. I, and contributed many articles to the Neue Zeit.

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

currently doing "Read Windows API Documentation without killing yourself" challenge. It's not going well

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[–] PaX@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Been playing too many reactor sim games and now I'm completely nukepilled

We need to build more RBMK reactors to honor the legacy of the USSR BUT we will tell the operators about the extremely high positive void coefficient and the localized increase in reactivity caused by the movement of the graphite tipped control rods displacing water

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Love being on vacation and everyone is still trying to reach me at work

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Found a new absolute peak example of calvinball psychology.

"Torture is considered ineffective because the victims will invent completely imagined information to appease their torturers, this proves Stockholm Syndrome is real."

Complete nonsense, how fucking long until I have to see some moron say that following laws to avoid punishment by the justice system is fucking evidence of Stockholm Syndrome, christ. Talking to the police is Stockholm Syndrome, paying your bills is Stockholm Syndrome, returning someones wallet is fucking Stockholm Syndrome like what the fuck.

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[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

to all the transphobes - if I'm a "man" then how come I haven't seen Oppenheimer or Killers of the Flower Moon?

can't explain that one can ya

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

carrying around fentanyl like pocket sand in case the pigs get me

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey Megathread, did you know Girls Just Wanna Have fun was a cover? Did you know the original sound like a Clash song? Did you know both are total bop but I think the original needs some love too?

https://youtu.be/5aLNwOxPsjg?si=-moGnGIIkgN4cMd9

The lead is cool on a synth but double speed on a guitar unlocks my 'this is why rock n roll was invented' feeling.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are your employees quiet quilting?

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

In a lot of ways Brace is the Jean-Luc Godard of podcasting. Well, I guess the similarities begin and end at Maoism.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Imbibe is a good word, there should be more imbibing

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[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

are there still like, massively popular childrens/YA novels like there were 10-20 years ago? something like Harry Potter or Hunger Games, but for the current generation of kids? I feel like there must not be because if there was, they would have been made into movies by now

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

This was what constituted a controversial video game in 1976

(Also, it's all TTL - nary a microprocessor or ROM in sight)

[–] TheWorldSpins@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Sometimes I feel like I live in some kind of Otherworld. A world of someone's nightmarish delusions come to life...

Til I crack open a freakin bottle of Rosé. partiotism

[–] ElectronNumberSeven@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

nsfwPosted myself naked online a couple days ago and holy shit this is so good for my self confidence. If I keep doing this I'm going to get really vain lmao

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Stockholm syndrome is actually named after a town in Wisconsin.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Jeff Tiedrich Engels, instead of writing communism he just whined about Bismarck all day

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think there's great untapped potential in having the protagonist of a cosmic horror be like one of those old ladies from, like, Rosemary and Thyme or Murder She Wrote.

Just, like, Jessica Fletcher stumbling onto Innsmoth after taking a wrong turn going home from a book signing and now she's trying to stop Dagon's cultists.

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Gyms need to chill with the music volume

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Small saga is a game where you play as intelligent rodents in a world where humans are essentially lovecraftian deities. The main character Verm wields a "God forged blade" (A pocket knife) in his quest to become a god slayer and take vengeance upon The Yellow God, an eldritch god of death (An exterminator)

It's pretty cool so far.

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[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's actually pretty sus that the villain in Blue Eyed Samurai had a whole shpiel about how Japan had a good thing going and then it went and let in immigrants like himself.

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[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

6 hours of sunlight doesn’t sound that bad until you realize that even when the sun is up, it’s barely cresting above buildings, so it’s just a half-assed daylight.

Who would win? A huge mass of incandescent gas, or one tiny D vitamin?

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[–] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

stumbled upon a thread from abt a month ago about why dating is hard on chapo dot chat and there was a lot of interesting stuff being said always sucks when you miss the boat like that

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Mr. President, Destiny has had another gamer moment" second-plane

[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

why is the URL for "X corp" still twitter.com? the rebrand happened 8 months ago... I'm guessing they're just too incompetent to change the URL without breaking something major

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

22 year old Japanese co-worker didn't know Kurosawa had international appeal.

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Trying to train myself to not give a shit about work. We underwent a transition and now the place is a bureaucratic mess with what feels like 500 teams and overlapping scopes, the thing moves at a glacial pace, I can’t get anything done… but I’m collecting my paycheck and managing to sustain a tolerable level of output with good working hours.

It’s only my desire for efficiency that has me frustrated, but like, who gives a shit? As long as I am getting paid why should I care? I need to rewire my brain

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Gave the flamin hot cheetos a second go and this time they were okay. I think I must have gotten a bad puff that was super loaded with cheeto dust and that's what fucked me up. Second go around they taste pleasant and like real cheese with the kick of hotness.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I love how obvious it is that NBA refs are on the take, it's not even a debate anymore, they're rigging the games......honesty makes me want to watch more games, I love this drama

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[–] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Tim Kaine in the membrane

[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

So i got hired as a cook at 16.50, with mention of "up to 17" at a 90 day review. That 90 day review is coming up. I've been told nonstop what a good job I've been doing, and more importantly another cook who doesn't cook as well as me got fired for being an asshole a month ago. I think he was getting >18$ so his being fired means they have more room with that $17 they mentioned to me, right?

And I feel like I've demonstrated a lot of desirable qualities i.e. I clean out the drain stopper on the steam kettle EVERY TIME, but even the fuckin sous chef in charge of hygiene left it uncleaned and covered in gross leftover alfredo sauce. So im a tryhard who can be trusted to care about shit like that.

Anyway how much money do you think I should ask for

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[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

having a stress induced breakdown is not fun

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Summer is here and as I turned the fan on, my cat came rushing from wherever she was and laid down in front of the fan. Lazy fat cat having a good life.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Instagram keeps showing me ads for a nudist LGBT hotel. Whoever is selling my data to Instagram clearly knows me too well

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