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"Chill Commie." Professor of History at Illinois State University. Intellectual historian. I write books about US history, Karl Marx, culture wars, history of education.
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"And so the middle ground he tried to claim for himself split apart, sending a new generation of activists into the streets while Obama talked retirement plans over cocktails with a rotating cast of celebrities and CEOs." Tim Shenk, Realigners
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"Obama made himself president by tapping into the desire for change, but he didn’t have the ideas, the infrastructure, or (by 2008) the inclination to translate a radical ambition into policy.”
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I swim master's and it's great.
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Both things can be true at once.
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Music to my ears. That was a fun conversation. I hope Claire has me back on sometime. I got lots of sucky people to talk about.
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This picture will be in the postscript to the second edition.
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"But the major work for Hartman’s youthful development was Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, with Hartman characterizing Zinn as one of the few keepers of the flame from the 1960s to the beginnings of the fourth Marx boom of today."
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"Hartman worked his way as a teenager through a series of left-wing books featured in a photo in the liner notes to the band’s second album Evil Empire. These included Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Che Guevara’s Guerilla Warfare."
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Just read and added so many songs to playlist!
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Monday in Copenhagen, "The future of the American Left – Fighting the Oligarchy – then and now?" I will be in conversation with Mogens Lykketoft, former Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the UN General Assembly. www.arbejdermuseet.dk/arrangement/...