Andrew Hartman

#ScholarSunday Thread 253 (12/7/25) – Black and White and Read All Over Like Rudolph or Mariah, the #ScholarSunday powers grow ever stronger as December deepens. See for yourself with my 253rd thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthc...

Like Rudolph or Mariah, the #ScholarSunday powers grow ever stronger as December deepens. See for yourself with my 253rd thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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American Marxists – Kevin Schmiesing Andrew Hartman’s book on American Communists is a fine history but is too steeped in Marx to be a good analysis.

I've been waiting for conservatives to review my book. The first one is in and it did not disappoint.
lawliberty.org/book-review/...

This review is every author's dream come true. If you're curious about my book I can think of no better overview of its intellectual and political commitments.

Andrew Hartman on Erik Baker’s *Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America* | Society for US Intellectual History There has been a lot of talk about capitalism lately, a term people only tend to use when it’s giving us fits. One doesn’t have to be a Marxist to recognize that many of our most intractable problems—...

I review @erikmbaker.bsky.social's book for @susih.bsky.social.

s-usih.org/2025/11/andr...

the peddlers of the entrepreneurial work ethic!

for telling a uniquely edifying story about the history of American capitalism. He also merits a pat on the back for doing us the important service of reading countless pages of platitudinous drivel written by some of the most annoying hucksters in American history...

By historicizing the clarion call for us to “make our own jobs,” another way of saying that everyone is individually responsible for their own economic survival even amidst ongoing structural transformations to the labor market, Baker deserves credit....

Since the early 20th century, as Erik Baker shows in his fantastic book, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America," myriad politicians, economists, psychologists, management experts, & motivational speakers have prodded Americans to embrace their inner entrepreneur.

Andrew Hartman on Erik Baker’s *Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America* | Society for US Intellectual History There has been a lot of talk about capitalism lately, a term people only tend to use when it’s giving us fits. One doesn’t have to be a Marxist to recognize that many of our most intractable problems—...

I review @erikmbaker.bsky.social's book for @susih.bsky.social.

s-usih.org/2025/11/andr...

"Hartman is a fine writer..." "Hartman is admirably comprehensive and careful..." "Hartman, the capable historian..." Lots of praise by the good folks at Law and Liberty! (Taken out of context? Maybe.)

American Marxists – Kevin Schmiesing Andrew Hartman’s book on American Communists is a fine history but is too steeped in Marx to be a good analysis.

I've been waiting for conservatives to review my book. The first one is in and it did not disappoint.
lawliberty.org/book-review/...

Really looking forward to “Reading Marx Then & Now” with @andrewhartman.bsky.social & Prof. David Alderson at @manchester.ac.uk.

📣Next Wednesday, 3 December 4-5 pm in Sam Alex A113

Penelope Dean, University of Illinois Chicago Capitalism and You

Join us for a fascinating @newberrylibrary.bsky.social seminar today where we will discuss a paper by Penelope Dean titled "Capitalism and You." We will be on zoom at 3:00 CST. Register and get the paper here. www.newberry.org/calendar/pen...

Penelope Dean, University of Illinois Chicago Capitalism and You

Join us for a fascinating @newberrylibrary.bsky.social seminar today where we will discuss a paper by Penelope Dean titled "Capitalism and You." We will be on zoom at 3:00 CST. Register and get the paper here. www.newberry.org/calendar/pen...

Penelope Dean, University of Illinois Chicago Capitalism and You

@bsky.app Friday, Nov 21, 3pm CT: Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar. UIC's Penelope Dean will share her new work on capitalism, xerox, and YOU. Comment by @elicook.bsky.social

Free registeration for paper and zoom info: www.newberry.org/calendar/pen...

Love when people send me pics of my book in the wild (this is Foyles in London). This might be a little too wild, however.

“ChatGPT: write a review of the new Marx books by Leipold and Hartman from the perspective of the sectarian Trotskyists at WSWS.”

Love when people send me pics of my book in the wild (this is Foyles in London). This might be a little too wild, however.

five scholars sitting on a stage in a ballroom

author meets critics: KARL MARX IN AMERICA by @andrewhartman.bsky.social #usih2025

Two new books on Marx and Marxism What both books avoid is precisely what Marx insisted upon: that the liberation of humanity requires the political independence of the working class and the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.

If you'd like to read a review of my book where I am accused of holding "petty-bourgeois political sensibilities" (yes you read that correctly)--well, then, do I ever have a review for you!

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

“ChatGPT: write a review of the new Marx books by Leipold and Hartman from the perspective of the sectarian Trotskyists at WSWS.”

Two new books on Marx and Marxism What both books avoid is precisely what Marx insisted upon: that the liberation of humanity requires the political independence of the working class and the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.

If you'd like to read a review of my book where I am accused of holding "petty-bourgeois political sensibilities" (yes you read that correctly)--well, then, do I ever have a review for you!

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

One of my fave things to do while traveling is see which authors who’ve been on the pod are stocked at bookstores and look who’s in Edinburgh!

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@profgabriele.com
@lollardfish.bsky.social
@andrewhartman.bsky.social

Karl Marx in America with Andrew Hartman - Marxist Education Project Historian Andrew Hartman introduces his new book, Karl Marx in America. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States ... Read more

Check out this book talk on 10/26 on "Karl #Marx in #America" with historian @andrewhartman.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social organized by comrades at the Marxist Education Project #educaiton #history #US #philosophy #politics RSVP here: marxedproject.org/event/marx-i...

The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism Karl Marx never visited the United State but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

As a young man, Karl Marx applied for permission to emigrate to Texas but changed his mind. Yet Robin Blackburn writes that even without having come to the United States, Marx's influence and that of his followers is hard to deny. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism Karl Marx never visited the United State but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

Even the chroniclers of the Roaring '20s found something in Marx, writes Robin Blackburn. F. Scott Fitzgerald insisted to his daughter that she read “the terrible chapter in 'Das Kapital' on the Working Day, and see if you are ever quite the same.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The great Robin Blackburn reviews my book for @thenation.com.

"In Karl Marx in America, Andrew Hartman provides us with a kaleidoscopic vision of Marxism in the United States in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries."

www.thenation.com/article/soci...