More than a metaphor for this Marx passage: "Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” (Both too on the nose, and ironic!)

Benjamin Franklinstein@mitchellg657.bsky.social · 4d ago

So I donate blood as often as I can (I'm working on my fifth gallon at this point) so I always end up with Amazon gift cards for like $10-20. I put together a watch list of ebooks and whenever one of them goes on sale I give lil Jeff my blood money. Anyway, this was $4 today so I bought it

This was so fun! And I highly recommend Andrew's book, "Karl Marx in America," out last year from U Chicago Press.

William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸@marxinhell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I took part in a discussion of @andrewhartman.bsky.social's Karl Marx in America, alongside the inimitable Cedric Johnson and @lclaberge.bsky.social. Come, listen to Gen X Marxists debate the relative significance of the Battle of Seattle, Occupy, and the movements against the wars on Iraq!

Harshest critique of me yet: "his Bluesky presence is that of the liberal-progressive social-activist historian type." 🫤 newworker.us/culture/andr...

Andrew Hartman’s Karl Marx in America (2025) — New Worker

Karl Marx, Big in America! Was Karl Marx’s thought really in America? Just how important was he to Americans? When Americans think of Karl Marx, they often imagine him and his ideas as completely f...

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“No countervailing power has yet emerged to combat the right-wing capture of universities in Florida or Ohio. If we as left-wing academics want to build one, the sole path open to us now is through the kinds of institutions that hyperpoliticization undermines, particularly unions like the AAUP.”

Andrew Hartman@andrewhartman.bsky.social · last wk.

This is an excellent analysis of "The Report." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

This is an excellent analysis of "The Report." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

In the Grip of Politics | Greg Afinogenov

All of us, from academics to fishermen, have now internalized a practice of reading the social world as a field of political or latently political signs. TV watching habits, food choices, clothing, in...

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Donald Trump e Karl Marx Por Andrew Hartman O paradoxo da liberdade americana: por que o establishment conservador precisa culpar Karl Marx pelas rachaduras de um sistema fundamentado na desigualdade. aterraeredonda.com.br/donald-trump... #aterraéredonda #AndrewHartman

Congratulations to Jarvis McInnis, whose book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, is co-winner of the 2026 book prize in United States Intellectual History! tinyurl.com/4p2ynbk7 @columbiaup.bsky.social

2026 S-USIH Annual Book Prize | Society for US Intellectual History

The Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians is excited to announce that the co-winners of the 2026 book prize in United States Intellectual History are Andrew Hartman for Karl Marx in America (Univers...

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This Day in Labor History: July 23, 1892. The anarchist Alexander Berkman tries and completely fails to assassinate an unarmed Henry Clay Frick after that capitalist scum busted the Homestead Strike. This moment is a good time to discuss violence in the Gilded Age labor movement.

In the latest issue of Reviews in American History I have a long essay reviewing two excellent books by Tim Shenk: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Title of my review essay: "Hofstadter, Right Side Up"

Andrew Hartman@andrewhartman.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the latest issue of Reviews in American History I have a long essay reviewing two excellent books by Tim Shenk: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

In the latest issue of Reviews in American History I have a long essay reviewing two excellent books by Tim Shenk: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Just finished Rashid Khalidi's "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine." Best book I've read on the topic.

I just debated John Mackey (founder of Whole Foods) on the merits of capitalism and socialism in front of 100 libertarians and it was as weird as you’d expect (but also kind of fun). Going by audience response, I did not win.

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Conservatives Have Spent 150 Years Terrified of a Dead Man—Why Marx is Weaponized Against Us

Trump insists you can't love Marx and America both, reviving a smear that has branded Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement un-American.

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Andrew Hartman@andrewhartman.bsky.social · last mo.

“You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You cannot be both.”

Should I ask my press to put the Trump quote on the paperback edition ? 🥴

Andrew Hartman@andrewhartman.bsky.social · last mo.

“You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You cannot be both.”

Complete and utter BS. Not surprising given the source.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last mo.

The Democratic Socialists of America was formed in opposition to the very thing that it has become, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:

Few figures on the left have been as committed to realizing the democratic promise of American politics as Eugene Debs.

What to Eugene Debs Was the Fourth of July? - Dissent Magazine

Few figures on the left have been as committed to realizing the democratic promise of American politics as Eugene Debs.

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“You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You cannot be both.”

This would be a huge honor no matter what. But coming from @susih.bsky.social, my community of scholars my entire career, it means that much more. Congratulations to co-winner Jarvis C. McInnis, author of "Afterlives of the Plantation." @uchicagopress.bsky.social s-usih.org/2026/06/2026...

2026 S-USIH Annual Book Prize | Society for US Intellectual History

The Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians is excited to announce that the co-winners of the 2026 book prize in United States Intellectual History are Andrew Hartman for Karl Marx in America (Univers...

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A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

This would be a huge honor no matter what. But coming from @susih.bsky.social, my community of scholars my entire career, it means that much more. Congratulations to co-winner Jarvis C. McInnis, author of "Afterlives of the Plantation." @uchicagopress.bsky.social s-usih.org/2026/06/2026...

2026 S-USIH Annual Book Prize | Society for US Intellectual History

The Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians is excited to announce that the co-winners of the 2026 book prize in United States Intellectual History are Andrew Hartman for Karl Marx in America (Univers...

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Japanese translation of Karl Marx in America has dropped!

I took part in a discussion of @andrewhartman.bsky.social's Karl Marx in America, alongside the inimitable Cedric Johnson and @lclaberge.bsky.social. Come, listen to Gen X Marxists debate the relative significance of the Battle of Seattle, Occupy, and the movements against the wars on Iraq!

Karl Marx in America

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We'll be talking about Karl Marx in America in a few hours--come join us! www.youtube.com/live/Z-qF-_n...

Karl Marx in America

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Japanese translation of Karl Marx in America has dropped!

@andrewhartman.bsky.social and me talk about Rockhill's book on the "This is Revolution" podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sO7...

WESTERN MARXISM THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS ft. MATT MCMANUS & ANDREW HARTMAN

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Ah, memories.

Reading Rockhill's "Pipers of Western Marxism" and even though there's a lot I disagree with calling Heidegger and Derrida "the high priests of the unknowable" is objectively hilarious.

Reading Rockhill's "Pipers of Western Marxism" and even though there's a lot I disagree with calling Heidegger and Derrida "the high priests of the unknowable" is objectively hilarious.

I went on the Race Matters podcast to discuss Karl Marx in America. Fun comversation, check it out! youtu.be/b5V8ONwzoio?...

Race Matters Episode 93: Karl Marx in America with Professor Andrew Hartman

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