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“The Public Grant-Making Bank represents a critical mechanism for fiscal insurgency… a profound political act that challenges the hegemonic conception of money as a fundamentally capitalist tool.”
This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.
This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.
✨ New Essay! ✨
We argue that loan-based finance perpetuates capitalist interests & constraints that undercut efforts to address social & climate crises. Public banking is vital, to be sure; but we must fight for public banks that are empowered to issue grants, not merely loans.
Please share! 👩💻 🙌
We argue that loan-based finance perpetuates capitalist interests & constraints that undercut efforts to address social & climate crises. Public banking is vital, to be sure; but we must fight for public banks that are empowered to issue grants, not merely loans.
Please share! 👩💻 🙌
Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
moneyontheleft.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“The Public Grant-Making Bank represents a critical mechanism for fiscal insurgency… a profound political act that challenges the hegemonic conception of money as a fundamentally capitalist tool.”
This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.
This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
“The first pillar of this model involves restructuring finance as direct grants, rather than as loans … On this logic, a grant is still debt; only, it is a qualitative obligation to improve social and environmental conditions, rather than a quantitative obligation to repay a financial sum.”
✨ New Essay! ✨
We argue that loan-based finance perpetuates capitalist interests & constraints that undercut efforts to address social & climate crises. Public banking is vital, to be sure; but we must fight for public banks that are empowered to issue grants, not merely loans.
Please share! 👩💻 🙌
We argue that loan-based finance perpetuates capitalist interests & constraints that undercut efforts to address social & climate crises. Public banking is vital, to be sure; but we must fight for public banks that are empowered to issue grants, not merely loans.
Please share! 👩💻 🙌
Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
moneyontheleft.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“The first pillar of this model involves restructuring finance as direct grants, rather than as loans … On this logic, a grant is still debt; only, it is a qualitative obligation to improve social and environmental conditions, rather than a quantitative obligation to repay a financial sum.”
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
MotL 84 is live! 🔊
✨Democratic Public Finance✨
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance."
Please listen 🎧 & share 🙌 !
*Transcript forthcoming
✨Democratic Public Finance✨
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance."
Please listen 🎧 & share 🙌 !
*Transcript forthcoming
November 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
MotL 84 is live! 🔊
✨Democratic Public Finance✨
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance."
Please listen 🎧 & share 🙌 !
*Transcript forthcoming
✨Democratic Public Finance✨
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance."
Please listen 🎧 & share 🙌 !
*Transcript forthcoming
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
"[A] job guarantee is the ultimate disenshittifier of work."
The enshittification of labor
Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate.
doctorow.medium.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"[A] job guarantee is the ultimate disenshittifier of work."
i'm going to use this! instead of appreciation we often get more do more with less from higher ed leadership.
I was taught that each campaign has 3 phases: preparation, execution, evaluation. Two decades in, I'm now convinced there's a 4th phase: appreciation.
Appreciation is essential because hard work done, if left unappreciated, can poison its doer. That's why I make time to write personal thank-you's.
Appreciation is essential because hard work done, if left unappreciated, can poison its doer. That's why I make time to write personal thank-you's.
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
i'm going to use this! instead of appreciation we often get more do more with less from higher ed leadership.
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
I was taught that each campaign has 3 phases: preparation, execution, evaluation. Two decades in, I'm now convinced there's a 4th phase: appreciation.
Appreciation is essential because hard work done, if left unappreciated, can poison its doer. That's why I make time to write personal thank-you's.
Appreciation is essential because hard work done, if left unappreciated, can poison its doer. That's why I make time to write personal thank-you's.
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I was taught that each campaign has 3 phases: preparation, execution, evaluation. Two decades in, I'm now convinced there's a 4th phase: appreciation.
Appreciation is essential because hard work done, if left unappreciated, can poison its doer. That's why I make time to write personal thank-you's.
Appreciation is essential because hard work done, if left unappreciated, can poison its doer. That's why I make time to write personal thank-you's.
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
Excellent piece by Nancy Pelosi on Mamdani’s budget challenges in Jacobin this week.
Mayor Mamdani’s Budget Can Add Up
New York’s incoming socialist mayor faces real fiscal constraints — but also real opportunities. With a strong tax base, modest reforms, and a clear political mandate, Zohran Mamdani has the tools to ...
jacobin.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Excellent piece by Nancy Pelosi on Mamdani’s budget challenges in Jacobin this week.
Or better yet moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Or better yet moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
Now that the election is done, I thought it would be nice to share this clip from the field launch back in January. What eventually became a field op with 104,000 people started with about 200. For me, it's a reminder that most great things start small—and that what makes them big is organization.
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Now that the election is done, I thought it would be nice to share this clip from the field launch back in January. What eventually became a field op with 104,000 people started with about 200. For me, it's a reminder that most great things start small—and that what makes them big is organization.
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
Big thx to @mattseybold.bsky.social for giving us permission to re-publish this urgent piece on the @moneyontheleft.bsky.social website. It's time for big ideas & transformative projects!
✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Big thx to @mattseybold.bsky.social for giving us permission to re-publish this urgent piece on the @moneyontheleft.bsky.social website. It's time for big ideas & transformative projects!
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
Let’s goooooooo!!!!!
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
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Let’s goooooooo!!!!!
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
Democratic Public Finance redefines politics as the process of coordinating our abundant human and material resources within ecological limits, rather than as an austere and exploitative competition for scarce funds.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
November 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Democratic Public Finance redefines politics as the process of coordinating our abundant human and material resources within ecological limits, rather than as an austere and exploitative competition for scarce funds.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
Had a great time speaking with
@modernmoneylab.org.uk about complementary currencies with my MOTL colleague @robbhawkes.bsky.social!!
Some of our slides below 💛🫡
@modernmoneylab.org.uk about complementary currencies with my MOTL colleague @robbhawkes.bsky.social!!
Some of our slides below 💛🫡
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Had a great time speaking with
@modernmoneylab.org.uk about complementary currencies with my MOTL colleague @robbhawkes.bsky.social!!
Some of our slides below 💛🫡
@modernmoneylab.org.uk about complementary currencies with my MOTL colleague @robbhawkes.bsky.social!!
Some of our slides below 💛🫡
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
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…
moneyontheleft.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
"Contrary to economic orthodoxy, [Democratic Public Finance] redefines politics as the process of coordinating our abundant human and material resources within ecological limits, rather than exploitative competition for scarce funds."
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
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"Contrary to economic orthodoxy, [Democratic Public Finance] redefines politics as the process of coordinating our abundant human and material resources within ecological limits, rather than exploitative competition for scarce funds."
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
I've been reading Money on the Left's interview with Caroline Levine very slowly, but I liked this quote:
bsky.app/profile/mone...
bsky.app/profile/mone...
"We then take too much for granted, which is one of the reasons – to go back to your earlier point about deep familiarization – I do think we need to remember what we have that’s good and not only think about our society is completely immiserated and immiserating because there are good things."
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…
moneyontheleft.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I've been reading Money on the Left's interview with Caroline Levine very slowly, but I liked this quote:
bsky.app/profile/mone...
bsky.app/profile/mone...
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
I wish the left would reclaim labor more sharply by de-linking it from capital and the profit motive. Paid labor is not a necessary evil to be automated away, it is also care and participation, inclusion and recognition.
the lies and disdain for labor are bad enough, but the way the culture treats these unremarkable men like they're sociologists is salt in the wound
Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With
So that's where we're at.
www.yahoo.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I wish the left would reclaim labor more sharply by de-linking it from capital and the profit motive. Paid labor is not a necessary evil to be automated away, it is also care and participation, inclusion and recognition.
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
This is a short intro to our project, which speaks to many of the topics you’ve been addressing on your @boldpolitics.bsky.social podcast - it’s time to tell new stories about money and ecosocial justice!
Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro
By Rob Hawkes and Robyn Ollett The summer of 2025, like the summer of 2024 before it, has been one of heightened tensions surrounding the issues of race and immigration in the UK. This year, Union …
moneyontheleft.org
October 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is a short intro to our project, which speaks to many of the topics you’ve been addressing on your @boldpolitics.bsky.social podcast - it’s time to tell new stories about money and ecosocial justice!
Yes!
🙌
🙌
To change condition 1️⃣: @investinourny.bsky.social and @socialists.nyc are laying the groundwork for strong #TaxTheRich campaigns.
To change condition 2️⃣: we must cohere around an alternative to neoliberal public finance; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social has provided exactly that.
bsky.app/profile/mone...
To change condition 2️⃣: we must cohere around an alternative to neoliberal public finance; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social has provided exactly that.
bsky.app/profile/mone...
✨ 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"
Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩💻
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Yes!
🙌
🙌
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
Money is not a thing. It neither stores dead labor nor conserves mass, energy or value. Money does not conform to logics of object permanence. True fiscal disobedience creates new credit forms that take care of people now, rather than merely withholding tax dollars as if they were gold ingots.
How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart
By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Money is not a thing. It neither stores dead labor nor conserves mass, energy or value. Money does not conform to logics of object permanence. True fiscal disobedience creates new credit forms that take care of people now, rather than merely withholding tax dollars as if they were gold ingots.
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
The pinnacle of neoliberal ideology is to approach Trump like he’s a landlord who owns the state but won’t do repairs. Just put the rent in a separate account.
It is easier to imagine a rebellious tax strike than rebellious spending to take care of people now
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It is easier to imagine a rebellious tax strike than rebellious spending to take care of people now
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart
By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The pinnacle of neoliberal ideology is to approach Trump like he’s a landlord who owns the state but won’t do repairs. Just put the rent in a separate account.
It is easier to imagine a rebellious tax strike than rebellious spending to take care of people now
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It is easier to imagine a rebellious tax strike than rebellious spending to take care of people now
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
"[M]ultiple crediting operations can drive a planned, gradual expansion of the public sector, a revaluation of different kinds of work, a mobilization of human capacities, and a pedagogical process."
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
October 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"[M]ultiple crediting operations can drive a planned, gradual expansion of the public sector, a revaluation of different kinds of work, a mobilization of human capacities, and a pedagogical process."
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
"The core of [Neoliberal Public Finance] is a legal hierarchy that prioritizes private financial institutions over public bodies, especially at the state and municipal levels."
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
October 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"The core of [Neoliberal Public Finance] is a legal hierarchy that prioritizes private financial institutions over public bodies, especially at the state and municipal levels."
Reposted by Benjamin Wilson
bumping this as it came up in our Branch Meeting today: there are alternative funding & governance systems for #UKHE being pitched and developed. This blogpost offers a thoughtful discussion. What others are there out there, #SaveHE gang?
Government pretends that there is no alternative, but...
Government pretends that there is no alternative, but...
“Unless we are open to new approaches to university finance, we will remain trapped by the austere logics that are destroying our cherished institutions.
Unless we are willing to act imaginatively and fearlessly to save our universities now, we will soon find that there is nothing left to save.”
Unless we are willing to act imaginatively and fearlessly to save our universities now, we will soon find that there is nothing left to save.”
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…
moneyontheleft.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM