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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 · 8d

✨MotL 93 is live!✨

We speak with @carolinelevine.bsky.social about her important book: The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.

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*Transcript forthcoming!

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Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social · 8h

Economics departments are overwhelmingly dominated by neoliberal economics which relies on the myth of “tax payer money” so that money is a limited resource

When really any public institution can create public money

Including public universities

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 11h

Mamdani has already displayed unparalleled political expertise in debunking myths about public spending. We build on this expertise, equipping the mayoralty with tools to openly and comprehensively challenge what we call Neoliberal Public Finance.

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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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 8h

@moneyontheleft.bsky.social gave me the privilege + pleasure of reading an earlier draft; I'm excited to see it made public.

May this vision help generate thousands of curious convos, a robust counterculture on public finance...

....and, one day, radical financial action at a scale of millions.

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

✨ 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 · 10h

"The core of Neoliberal Public Finance ... fosters a negative feedback loop where public entities, starved of democratic financing tools, are forced into a politics of austerity, while private markets are prone to credit-fueled bubble."

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 · 10h

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 10h

"[M]unicipal governments ought to fully exploit the multiplicity of crediting possibilities. ... While they are distinct from dollars, at scale, they are a powerful means of mobilizing, valuing, rewarding and developing capacities & people and can be used to complement dollar expenses."

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 · 10h

This episode examines how One Battle, which draws loose inspiration from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, deliberately removes specific historical markers to place the story in an ambiguous present of ongoing revolution and counter-revolution.

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 · 10h

"The present text argues that a robust response to the ills of market ideology requires cultivating shared knowledge about the political constitution of money."

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 · 11h

Mamdani has already displayed unparalleled political expertise in debunking myths about public spending. We build on this expertise, equipping the mayoralty with tools to openly and comprehensively challenge what we call Neoliberal Public Finance.

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 · 12h

What we call “Democratic Public Finance” discloses previously invisible possibilities for communal well-being and denaturalizes the impoverished suppositions that legitimize fiscal obstruction by establishment liberals, conservatives, and right-wing demagogues alike.

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 · 12h

What we call “Democratic Public Finance” discloses previously invisible possibilities for communal well-being and denaturalizes the impoverished suppositions that legitimize fiscal obstruction by establishment liberals, conservatives, and right-wing demagogues alike.

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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Antonia Marrero @antoniamarrero.bsky.social · 12h

“ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vision 4NYC represents the most politically savvy& fiscally robust undertaking in decades…it directly confronts the myth of money scarcity
&frames our collective capacities as the source of shared prosperity…DPF …delegitimizes &bypasses neoliberal sabotage...”
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 12h

I’m so excited to share this document.

Hopefully Mamdani’s campaign inspired us enough to inspire them back 💙💛🧡

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

✨ 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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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 12h

So proud to finally publish MotL’s public finance strategy for Mamdani’s NYC. This is a collective labor of love months in the making. Now is the time to democratize finance at every level of government, no exceptions.

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

✨ 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 …

moneyontheleft.org

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

✨ 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 · 16h

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.

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 · 16h

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 · 1d

It's time to talk about 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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Just a Housewife 🖇 @justahousewife.bsky.social · 1d

Like dat?

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

Tremendous thanks to Cory Doctorow for helping us get the word out about Blue Bonds, MotL's fiscal strategy for mobilizing sub-federal debt financing to defeat authoritarian sabotage & extortion.

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

"The difference here is that this is a people’s bailout, going to fund the programs that people — not bankers or investors — rely on."

-Cory Doctorow

State debt is generative.

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

"[Trump's] agenda only works if there’s nothing else on offer.

Blue Bonds are the counter-offer."

Blue Bonds Can Stop Trump’s Fiscal Authoritarianism

By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Less than a year into his second term, Donald Trump has launched an illegal and (as now) unfeasible mass deportation campaign—one that is tearing apart…

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

Care After Structure

Care After Structure

by Scott Ferguson This essay accompanies After Structure, an exhibition curated by Mark Fredricks for University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum, June 13 – August 2, 2025. Af…

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

Accounting Identities or Accounting Analogies?

Accounting Identities or Accounting Analogies?

by Will Beaman Most people’s first exposure to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) comes with a gentle promise: It is just accounting. The government’s deficit is the non-government sector’s surplus, by s…

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

"This is not fiscal realism. It is self-inflicted austerity, the result of imagining sabotage itself as an inescapable condition of democratic life."

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

The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine

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 · 1d

Scott and Jonathan affirm One Battle’s unapologetically leftist perspective as a breath of fresh air within a current political climate of despair–a feeling emblematized by films such as Ari Aster’s Eddington.

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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