You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at American're both most excited to welcome back to the podcast, our friend Andrew Hartman.

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But Andrew, thank you so much for coming to the show.

Yeah, thanks for having me back on.

It'll be good to relive our six conversations,

our six hour long conversations, yeah. In the 10 seconds before you die, Andrew, you're going to

think about this now, especially because I mentioned that right now you will. So I thought it

might be interesting just as a bit of a promo to talk about how you think examining Marxist

thought in America is useful. And I feel like I'll just throw you into the deep end, which

is we're recording this in early April. The Iran war drags on. Trump is threatening other

nations basically all the time. The neo-capitalist order seems in distress to say the least.

But how could understanding Marx help us understand this present moment?

So when we were talking about the chapter, I think it's like chapter five from my book,

we were talking about Paul Sweezy,

who's one of the Marxists who helped found the monthly review,

which is still going strong.

It's like one long essay from 1947 to the present.

And you asked me, you know,

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