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Republicans are shutting down the government because they don’t want to fix the health care crisis they created.

They’re holding the entire government hostage so they can raise health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throw millions off their health care.

NO.

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Reading 'Karl Marx in America' - Marxist Education Project An eight-week study of Andrew Hartman’s recently published Karl Marx in America.  To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States ... Read ...

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Melanie R. Sheehan, Hartwick College Negotiating Fair Trade in a World of Uneven Development: US Garment Unions in the 1960s

Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & I for the first Newberry Capitalism seminar. Friday, October 3, 3pm CT. Registration link below.

Melanie Sheehan will be sharing her work on unions & trade policy with a comment from @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social

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I'm on C-SPAN tomorrow! 9:00am and 9:00pm EST. They're airing a book talk I gave in August at @redemmas.org in Baltimore. The Hopkins historian friends in attendance are responsible for some of the difficult questions I received during the Q&A.
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We have @andrewhartman.bsky.social for an AMA on @askhistorians.bsky.social today! I'm sure Reddit will stay calm, cool, and collected for a very non-controversial topic like Karl Marx in America

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#Skystorians should tune in tomorrow for a fantastic #AMA with @andrewhartman.bsky.social! Author of "Karl Marx in America", this is a fantastic chance to come ask all your questions about Marx's influence on the history of America.

This Friday morning at 9:00 EST, I'll be on the @askhistorians.bsky.social Reddit page, answering questions about my new book, Karl Marx in America (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Stop by and ask your burning questions!

"A simple, straightforward reading of Marx teaches us that freedom requires that people have independence over their work, over their time, over their bodies. Since most people in a capitalist society lack such self-rule and must sell their labor to survive, capitalism is incompatible with freedom."

This Friday morning at 9:00 EST, I'll be on the @askhistorians.bsky.social Reddit page, answering questions about my new book, Karl Marx in America (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Stop by and ask your burning questions!

Sorry for your loss as well.

My amazing mom died this morning. Her hatred for injustice was pure. You might even say she was antifa.

screenshot of the post: "I thought my capacity for shock had been completely lost. But I have to admit, reading this message, which went out this morning to all public employees of the State of Virginia, stunned me: "Good morning, State Colleagues: Many of you saw the Proclamation issued by the Governor last night asking Virginians to pause at noon today to reflect and pray for Charlie Kirk’s family, to reject all forms of violence, and for our Commonwealth and Nation to stand together. (You may find the Official Proclamation here.) Just as our Nation joined together after September 11th, so too must we make a similar and lasting commitment to defeat the evils that harm our democracy." Over the years, I've read countless articles and books about the Redemption period after Reconstruction, how previously reviled and odious figures—slave masters, Confederate politicians, southern generals—were canonized by, first, the white South and ultimately the white power elite of the nation as a whole. I suddenly have such a visceral sense of what it must have felt like to be a formerly enslaved person, an abolitionist, a Union soldier, the families of Union soldiers who lost their sons or husbands or brothers, a radical founder of the Republican Party, to see this happening. It's stupefying, shocking, as I said, to see a version of it now, in real time, right before my eyes. It's like I'm seeing Birth of a Nation getting made right in front of me. After 9/11, Susan Sontag pleaded to a nation that had completely lost its mind, its sense of reality and proportion, any and every sense of history at all, "let's not be stupid together." I know it's a lot to ask of this country, but, please, let's not be stupid together."

from Corey Robin on FB:

As a writing exercise following Marx week, I have my students analyze the great Boots Riley film "Sorry to Bother You." Some great papers! Students now get the gist of Marx, discussing themes in the film such as alienated labor, the labor theory of value, & proletarianization.

cover of university of chicago press catalog titled HISTORY from chicago. the cover looks interstellar, with a human silhouette on a red desert with 2 barrel cacti, walking towards a mountain range. a full moon peeps behind the mountains in a dark starry sky.

the 1st 2 pages of the catalog, text excerpts: Faith, Family, and Flag Joanna Dee Das Faith, Family, Flag is a comprehensive history of the Branson entertainment industry, within the context of America's long culture wars. Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) A History Kevin M. Schultz "An important and highly relevant history of the rise and fall of the liberalism' label in US politics from the 1930s to the present. With lively and accessible prose, Schulz's ability to make readers care about this battle of words and labels is infectious." -Daniel Rodgers, author of As a City on a Hill Karl Marx in America Andrew Hartman "Hartman sweeps with gusto through over a century and a half of U.S. history, revealing the influence of Marxism on dozens of institutions, individuals, and events... to show that both liberal critics and right-wing demonizers got his favorite thinker terribly wrong." -The New Republic The Buried City Unearthing the Real Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel "Thanks to Zuchtriegel's storytelling energy, the most famous dead city in the world feels alive and teeming with activity." —Open Letters Review Penelope's Bones A New History of Homer's World through the Women Written Out of It Emily Hauser "A masterpiece. Hauser shows us Homer in a new light: in a world inhabited by women uneclipsed by men." -Gregory Nagy, Harvard University The Library of Ancient Wisdom Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World Selena Wisnom "Wisnom presents us with a rich treasure house of information about everyday life in the late Assyrian empire. Her book is both a learned work and a generous one, careful to show how a world that can, on the surface, appear very alien from our own is governed by patterns of behavior that are not that different at all." —The Spectator

Inventing the Renaissance The Myth of a Golden Age Ada Palmer "Inventing the Renaissance does something magical: it manages to take a tightly held conviction, dismantle it with humor and intelligence, then put it back together as something different and more true to the past itself." -Matthew Gabriele, coauthor of The Bright Ages The Heretic of Cacheu Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa "A rich microhistory centering on the life story of a fascinating African woman, this is a compelling, well-researched book that will make seventeenth-century African history accessible to any reader." -Mariana P. Candido, author of Wealth, Land and Property in Angola Sand, Snow, and Stardust How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments Gretchen Heefner "Heefner has written a revelatory history of extreme environments and the ways in which US military engineers sought to master them." — David Milne, author of Worldmaking The Killing Age How Violence Made the Modern World Clifton Crais "Crais's stroke of inspiration is to reread the history of the world, 1759-1900, through the lens of the simple question, Where are the guns?" -J. M. Coetzee The Invention of Infinite Growth How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion Christopher F. Jones "The origins and intellectual success of the growth fetish among Anglo-American economists, and the policymakers who listen to them, is among the most consequential yet neglected stories of modern times." -J.R. McNeill, author of Something New Under the Sun Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War The Movement to Stop the War on Terror Jeremy Varon "Insightful and unprecedented.... While the legal efforts to release the illegally-detained men at Guantanamo are amply chronicled, Varon tells the detailed, untold story of how organizers and activists successfully led the nation in advocating for our clients when the rule of law had largely failed us." -Vince Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights

Freeman's Challenge The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit Robin Bernstein "The virtuosity with which [Bernstein] has made dry bones live again fuels a vital contribution to American history and the history of the prison, even as it poses unsettling questions about how and to what end we confront the past." -LA Review of Books Plantation Goods A Material History of American Slavery Seth Rockman "Beautifully written, incredibly researched, and shows us a single, entwined economy north and south-through the lives and work of men and women in New England who produced goods like shoes and clothing and tools for people enslaved on southern plantations," -Scholarly Kitchen, Best Books of 2024 The Internal Colony Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization Sam Klug "...Klug powerfully centers decolonization's significance for American politics and documents the persistence of Black internationalism."-Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography John Swanson Jacobs "The rediscovery of a long-forgotten slave narrative would be notable enough. But this one, scholars who have seen it say, is unique for its global perspective and its uncensored fury." —Jennifer Schuessler, NYT The Nation That Never Was Reconstructing America's Story Kermit Roosevelt IlI "Roosevelt argues that the conventional story of the United States, which credits the Founders for inaugurating the American project, is false. ... it was Reconstruction, which followed the Civil War and pursued the ideals of liberty and equality, that forged the nation Americans today inherit." -Yale Law Report Lydia Maria Child A Radical American Life Lydia Moland "Moland wants us to think hard about what we owe each other as citizens and human beings. ... an ample, honest, and immensely readable book."—Wall Street Journal

a good day to be reminded of the quality of research produced at U. Chicago. *this* is what christian dominionism wants to dismantle.

shoutout to @adapalmer.bsky.social _inventing the renaissance_, top of page 2!!

I went on the Pod Damn America podcast (hilarious name for a podcast, btw) to discuss Marx in America -- they titled the episode on my idea for a great counter-historical novel: "Karl Marx: Texas Ranger."

Karl Marx: Texas Ranger w/Andrew Hartman Historian Andrew Hartman tells us about his fascinating new book

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I went on the Pod Damn America podcast (hilarious name for a podcast, btw) to discuss Marx in America -- they titled the episode on my idea for a great counter-historical novel: "Karl Marx: Texas Ranger."

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Great review essay in Raritan.

Giving a talk in less than two hours. Watch on zoom!

This exchange between Yglesias-Bruenig shows you a lot of what's wrong with the Democratic party in microcosm

Virtual: Karl Marx in America with Author Andrew Hartman Please join us for this author talk with Andrew Hartman about his new book Karl Marx in America. About the book: After decades of being pushed to the far-left corner of...

If you haven't had a chance to see or hear me talk about my book, Karl Marx in America, yet, I've giving a talk on zoom this Thursday (6:00 pm ET), hosted by the Bridgeport, CT Public Library. bportlibrary.libcal.com/event/15061157

Reading Marx in the Corpse of Neoliberalism! - Left Voice Andrew Hartman’s new book, Karl Marx in America, raises questions we’ll need to grapple with as a class, here in the death of neoliberalism.

Andrew Hartman’s new book, Karl Marx in America, raises questions we’ll need to grapple with as a class, here in the death of neoliberalism. neoliberalism/

New MIH Issue: Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social analyzes the history of liberalism in the twentieth century in his review essay of Samuel Moyn’s, Liberalism against Itself @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and Joshua Cherniss’ Liberalism in Dark Times @jcherniss.bsky.social

Red Like Me - New Politics Alan Wald reviews Andrew Hartman's latest book Karl Marx in America, a comprehensive history of Marx's influence in the United States from his times to the present.

This hefty review of @andrewhartman.bsky.social's Karl Marx in America has 100% convinced me to read it. I mean, this closing line alone:

"After all, if we don’t first interpret the world, we sure as hell can’t change it."

!!!!!

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Tonight!