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Marx in America / Andrew Hartman

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Historian Andrew Hartman returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from University of Chicago Press, "Karl Marx in America." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Andrew's book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo245100866.html Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

You welcome here.

0:03.0

The warrens with the war is with the power of war

0:20.0

and the power of the war. You welcome Neil. The water is with the... I like to our power. Thank you, Jack.

0:22.6

You welcome Hill.

0:24.6

Are you good? This is hell.

0:47.0

Happy May Day Eve, everybody.

0:50.5

I hope you got all your May Day shopping done before the big May Day rush. I understand

0:55.8

hammers and sickles are 50% off at your local hardware store. And as you can probably tell already,

1:01.8

this is not the media. This is hell. And this is Mayday week, which, if you were wondering,

1:10.8

explains all those cars driving around

1:12.5

with huge red flags bearing those same hammers and sickles.

1:17.5

As mentioned earlier this week, May Day happened because an 1886 general strike in the U.S.

1:23.8

of hundreds of thousands of workers inspired the world's workers with a message

1:28.5

of, if we can rise up en masse and demand better working conditions, in this case an eight-hour

1:34.3

workday, you can too. That history, of course, is erased here in Chicago despite the deadly

1:41.9

police riot and massacre of striking workers and the

1:46.2

injustice that followed, including the execution of four anarchists, who were not only likely

1:52.7

innocent, but at least two of them were not even at the scene of the crime that led to their

1:59.3

hanging. Poss possibly all four.

2:01.8

Also, erased is the history of the United States that inspired Karl Marx's writing.

2:07.1

And conversely, how his work inspired workers across the United States and continues to be,

2:11.7

as our guest argues, a ghost in the machine of U.S. capitalism.

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