Andrew Hartman
@HartmanAndrew
"Chill Commie." Professor of History at Illinois State Uni. Intellectual historian. Write books about US history, Karl Marx, culture wars, history of education.
NOW at backgroundbriefing.org | @OmarSShakir - International Outrage Grows at Deliberate Starvation in Gaza | Jared Abbott - Helping the Democrats get in Touch with the Working Class | @HartmanAndrew - A New History of Karl Marx in America as Young Americans Embrace Socialism
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.forward.com/opinion/757549…
It's never for one second been about hostages or hamas it has always been a pretext to genocide a people and steal land
Image used in *every* class on westward expansion. When I wrote a new intro to William Appleman Williams “Contours of American History,” Verso wanted to use it as cover. But Joan Scott (who was student of Williams at Madison and blurbed new edition) vetoed it as sexist!
Every American historian uses this image to teach students about 'manifest destiny' and ethnic cleansing, but I would guess that most of us didn't imagine that the US government would unironically reclaim it in the twenty-first century
We speak with @HartmanAndrew about his latest book, just out, Karl Marx in America. Which chronicles Marx’s often overlooked writings about the USA, as well as the influence of Marxism in our politics over the last two centuries. soundcloud.com/user-830442635…
The historical illiteracy of these Bari-bots is frightening. Here’s Truman’s New Deal definition of “socialism,” far to the left of Mamdani’s, and also included nationalized health care:
I read all 16,100 of Zohran Mamdani’s tweets. First takeaway: yeah, he’s actually a socialist.
"What we need more than ever is a Marx for the age of Trump, a time when the brilliance of Marx’s understanding of capitalism is widely acknowledged even as the political solution of the Marxist project (working-class revolution) seems to be in question. In Hartman’s scholarship…
Famously, the standardization of the workweek by early industrialists was vociferously resisted by workers, who often attempted to recreate an earlier era's work tempo by intermittently getting too drunk to work – especially on, you guessed it, Mondays
People are so anti-intellectual these days. The content of someone's day under feudalism probably had more to do with when in the year it was than which day of the week.
A learned, at times critical, but ultimately positive review of my book by @wald_alan66447 is available at @NewPoliticsMag. I'm grateful that a historian I've been reading since grad school, the dean of the intellectual/cultural history of the US left, took my book so seriously.
This is getting close to the logic of holocaust deniers who often point to the existence of survivors, escapees, the existence of Jewish partisans, the sporadic use of Jewish labor, and the fact that not all camps were used for extermination to cast doubt on genocidal intent
Trump is leading the attack on the universities, but Obama appointees are cheering it on and implementing it behind the scenes
Based on what I have read and heard so far, the agreement reached between the Federal government and @Columbia is an excellent template for agreements with other institutions including @Harvard. First, academic freedom is preserved as the University maintains academic autonomy.…
"Red Like Me"--My new review of Hartman's wonderful new KARL MARX IN AMERICA, now available to read in NEW POLITICS-- newpol.org/review/red-lik…