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Editorial Collective advancing #LeftMMT, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2d

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"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

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Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 4h

This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution.

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6h

"[Democratic Public Finance] builds on MMT’s insights but pushes further: it sees money not just as a federal tool but as a design system embedded in law and governance at every level."

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6h

"State debt is generative."

-Cory Doctorow

State debt is generative.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6h

No, it's much wider than that. We break it down into four different areas in the document.

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6h

Modern Money & the Black University Concept

By Andrew J. Douglas

Modern Money & the Black University Concept

Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2024)ISSN 2833-051X Modern Money & the Black University Concept By Andrew J. Douglas Abstract Recent efforts to rethink the university…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6h

What would YOU do in the shadows?!

Modern Movie Theory: What We Do in the Shadows

Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) is joined by Robyn Ollett (@robynollett) and Rob Hawkes (@robbhawkes) to discuss What We Do in the Shadows. Citing Robyn’s interpretations of vampirism in The New Queer…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6h

A powerful fiscal counter-strategy stands ready for deployment: a bond drive for democracy.

Blue Bonds: A Fiscal Strategy for Overcoming Trump 2.0

By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective The Trump Administration has plunged the United States into a constitutional crisis. The President’s destructive executive orders and Elon Musk’s…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6h

Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only “modest gestures of care”—& who seem to have moved directly to “mourning” our inevitable environmental losses—Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work.

The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine

We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6h

In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another.

One Battle After Another

In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. T…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6h

"[Neoliberal Public Finance] underwrites the neoliberal habit of acquiescence, which trains politicians and publics to treat fiscal sabotage as an impersonal event to be managed, not contested."

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, however, this model of passive income is still quite neoliberal. We are all for a robust welfare system that secures & supports all. Yet for us it is urgent to lead with active public provisioning & participation, rather giving every person a monthly stipend to spend as a capitalist consumer.

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TechGoblin @techgoblin.bsky.social · 11h

This is exactly the kind of thing that I think the world needs more of. Our political/social/economic/tech systems should be by and for the people, not billionaires who exert control over our lives.

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 13h

"At the city level, [Democratic Public Finance] means exploring how to expand crediting capacity through public banking, rethinking debt rules, and transforming public service employment, all as part of a broader struggle over the meaning and purpose of money itself."

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 13h

A Forgotten Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois: Monetary Populism and the Scapegoating of Black Political Life

A Forgotten Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois: Monetary Populism and the Scapegoating of Black Political Life

by Will Beaman In July 1934, W.E.B. Du Bois received a letter from an Atlanta resident named Gus Reich. We are excited to share both Reich’s letter and Du Bois’s short reply below. A lay theo…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 14h

"[Democratic Public Finance] builds on [Modern Monetary Theory’s] insights but pushes further: it sees money not just as a federal tool but as a design system embedded in law and governance at every level."

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 15h

"Democratic Public Finance at once delegitimizes and bypasses neoliberal sabotage from the center, as well as authoritarian subjugation and exclusion."

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 15h

"If democracy fails, it will not be because the public’s appetite was absent, but because we accepted private money’s 'no' at face value."

The Case for Fiscal Insurgency

by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…

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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 16h

“Democratic Public Finance is the process of making collective capacities visible, organizing them democratically, and enabling us to care for each other”

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2d

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 15h

We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 15h

"Willa (Chase Infinity), our cohosts argue, embodies the entangled, embattled, and yet still hopeful left politics that the film ultimately celebrates."

One Battle After Another

In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. T…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 15h

"If crediting operations create the future, democratizing such operations is at the core of a more inclusive and just politics."

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

During our conversation, we recount the events surrounding Elon Musk & the DOGE boys’ unconstitutional takeover of the Treasury’s Bureau of Fiscal Service, while explicating the right-wing theory of the “unitary executive” that underwrites such actions.

Digitizing the Fisc with Rohan Grey

Rohan Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University, joins Money on the Left to discuss his urgent new paper, “Digitizing the Fisc.” During our conversation, we recount the …

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Ryan @social-tern.bsky.social · 1d

This is a fascinating read. What a bold future

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2d

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

"For those who have studied the history of colonial Africa through its fiscal and monetary dimensions, the similarities between colonial macroeconomics and neoliberal macroeconomics are striking."

Neoliberalism’s Colonial Origins (Essay)

By Ndongo Samba Sylla For those who have studied the history of colonial Africa through its fiscal and monetary dimensions, the similarities between colonial macroeconomics and neoliberal macroecon…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

How the Zetro Card Can Save NYC (Really)

How the Zetro Card Can Save NYC (Really)

by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective A domestic occupation is currently being staged in the United States. National guard units have been deployed to Washington, D.C., with similar moves s…

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