Mine is that International Workers Day is May 1st to commemorate the Haymarket Affair, which happened in America where labor day is conspicuously much later in the year.

  • @fidel_castroM
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    155 years ago

    The fact that Lenin thought there would be no socialist revolution in his lifetime, about one year before the Russian revolution happened.

    • Muad'DibberMA
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      75 years ago

      This is one of the best ones and should give us all hope.

  • @tolstoiis
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    145 years ago

    Don’t know if this qualifies as trivia, but I love that Marx wrote “The Poverty of Philosophy” as a direct “fuck you” to Proudhon’s “The Philosophy of Poverty”. It cracks me up every time I think about it.

    • Muad'DibberMA
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      75 years ago

      Lol he was such a snarky little shit too, I love reading critique of gotha and seeing him get continually more pissed and tearing apart even single words as being opportunist or vague.

      • @Karlovious
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        -25 years ago

        i really do not like reading marx and IMO CotG was so boring

  • Commissar
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    125 years ago

    During the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong stopped eating meat, and grew vegetables and kept rabbits in order to help alleviate the famine’s effects. Not much, but he did his part.

  • Muad'DibberMA
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    115 years ago

    Oh also lenin’s hobbies. Guns, working out, nudism, and proletarian revolution.

  • @Alcubierre_Drive
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    105 years ago

    TRIZ

    TRIZ (/ˈtriːz/; Russian: теория решения изобретательских задач, teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadatch, literally: “theory of the resolution of invention-related tasks”) is “a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool derived from the study of patterns of invention in the global patent literature”.[1] It was developed by the Soviet inventor and science-fiction author Genrich Altshuller (1926-1998) and his colleagues, beginning in 1946. In English the name is typically rendered as “the theory of inventive problem solving”,[2][3] and occasionally goes by the English acronym TIPS.

    Following Altshuller’s insight, the theory developed on a foundation of extensive research covering hundreds of thousands of inventions across many different fields to produce a theory which defines generalisable patterns in the nature of inventive solutions and the distinguishing characteristics of the problems that these inventions have overcome[4].

    A direct kick in the mouth to the mouth-breathers that say “le gommulism cannot innobate”

    • Muad'DibberMA
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      35 years ago

      That’s fkn cool, I gotta learn more about that.

      • @Alcubierre_Drive
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        5 years ago

        It fukken is!

        IMHO it definitely bears “the birthmarks” of a meta-technical discipline descended from and developed under Marxism-Leninism.

        In principle, it would be possible to extend its application beyond engineering, or at least attempt to.

        I’ll let you wonder for yourself the potential of such a possibility and it’s compatibility with Marxism.

  • Muad'DibberMA
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    5 years ago

    Probably white coke, ie zhukovs favorite drink.

  • @100beep
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    210 months ago

    Lenin had a tuxedo cat that looks almost exactly like one of our tuxedo cats.