Why does #socialism have such bad connotations? Everyone benefits from the national interstate, and other infrastructure built for "society". Do people know that's where the word comes from? #CreatePublicBanksNow! Oct 22-24 2026 in Philly. #DeclareFinancialIndependence! @nibcoalition.bsky.social

“The status quo relies on the exclusion of weirdness, strangeness, and otherness to maintain its illusion of affordability. To build an inclusive and sustainable future, we’ll need to recognise and celebrate money as malleable, redesignable, and thus much weirder than we’ve been taught to think.”

Money Is Weird

by Rob Hawkes Isn’t it strange that social inclusion and climate justice appear unaffordable, but not the status quo? In July, I presented at the Weird Modernisms conference at Loughborou…

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New and excellent from @robbhawkes.bsky.social !!

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

✨ New Essay! ✨ Why are climate justice & public services always labeled "unaffordable" while the status quo gets a blank check? In this brief meditation, @robbhawkes.bsky.social argues that money is far weirder, malleable, and redesignable than we've been taught. Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌

✨ New transcript! ✨ Now you can *read* as well as listen to our latest episode with @victorpickard.bsky.social. 👩‍💻 🎧 moneyontheleft.org/2026/08/01/d... Enjoy! 🙌

We love to see it.

Jane Ball (living dead girl)@jane.inurhead.lol · 23h ago

Given DSA is reminding everyone that their foreign policy platform is extremely undercooked, i'm reupping my essay for @moneyontheleft.bsky.social from 3 years ago

"What do we owe to haShem and what do we owe to each other?"

A Dvar Torah on the Subject of Democratic Public Finance

By Anna Minsky The following speech was read on March 28th at a progressive New York City synagogue, a guest sermon by one of the congregants. In the Jewish tradition, each week we read one part (a…

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“[T]he way we routinely discuss public finance and the limitations we impose on monetary design are thoroughly normative and rest on the exclusion of the inexpressible weirdness of money and the humans who create it.” However, “‘anyone can liberate themselves from the strictures of normativity.’”

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

Drawing on neuroqueer theory, @robbhawkes.bsky.social's new essay challenges "normal-person monetary imaginations," arguing that money is far weirder, malleable, and redesignable than economic orthodoxy admits. Read "Money Is Weird" here.👇

Drawing on neuroqueer theory, @robbhawkes.bsky.social's new essay challenges "normal-person monetary imaginations," arguing that money is far weirder, malleable, and redesignable than economic orthodoxy admits. Read "Money Is Weird" here.👇

Money Is Weird

by Rob Hawkes Isn’t it strange that social inclusion and climate justice appear unaffordable, but not the status quo? In July, I presented at the Weird Modernisms conference at Loughborou…

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"The word ‘weird’...carries connotations of the magical & the supernatural. ...[E]vidence of money’s uncanny ability to ‘emerge from thin air’ is all around us, from government spending to bank lending, from complementary currencies to video game coins, & from high street store credit to crypto."

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

✨ New Essay! ✨ Why are climate justice & public services always labeled "unaffordable" while the status quo gets a blank check? In this brief meditation, @robbhawkes.bsky.social argues that money is far weirder, malleable, and redesignable than we've been taught. Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌

✨ New Essay! ✨ Why are climate justice & public services always labeled "unaffordable" while the status quo gets a blank check? In this brief meditation, @robbhawkes.bsky.social argues that money is far weirder, malleable, and redesignable than we've been taught. Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌

Money Is Weird

by Rob Hawkes Isn’t it strange that social inclusion and climate justice appear unaffordable, but not the status quo? In July, I presented at the Weird Modernisms conference at Loughborou…

moneyontheleft.org

You ever have groundless periods where you’re not sure what you’re doing with your life or what you care about and worry that you’ll never read and write again b/c job and kid and then you see an essay or book and you’re like oh yeah that’s what I used to spend time geeking out about? Yeah, that.

I saw “critiques of the barter myth” and my heart fluttered. I love this stuff so much. Don’t sleep on this, money nerds—a 2001 essay by Servet (impt for/critical of Graeber) abt the function of the barter myth in modern money/exchange imaginaries & reimagining money as constitutive of social life

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 12h ago

While standard critiques of the barter myth emphasize its lack of empirical support, this article advances a more capacious approach that situates the myth within the conceptual formation of economic modernity itself. moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/20/t...

Our weekly Monday #ModWrite is back! Tell us what you're working on this week by using the hashtag. 📝

Big thx to @rooseveltinstitute.org for highlighting our important conversation with @victorpickard.bsky.social about the need for democratic public media that resist capture by powerful corporate, oligarchic, & authoritarian interests.

We’ve Reformed Social Security Before—and We Can Do It Again.

Plus, 17 fresh ideas for the green energy transition in this week's Roosevelt Rundown.

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Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. moneyontheleft.org/2026/08/01/d...

Money, Modernism & Inflation in The Great Gatsby

Money, Modernism & Inflation in The Great Gatsby

Rob Hawkes (@robbhawkes) and Scott Ferguson (@videotroph) kick off a new Superstructure series about money, modernism, and inflation by revisiting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s widely-read novel, The Great…

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“The present chapter […] reject[s] the private-money-based economic orthodoxy in favour of the public money paradigm. This, I assert, entails moving away from a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ […] and towards what @moneyontheleft.bsky.social’s William Saas has called the ‘hermeneutics of provision’.” 1/

Sheridan Kates of the Greens' Economic Policy working group talks about the Fiscal Referees proposal. Mentioned: @kateraworth.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @neweconomics.bsky.social @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social @jryancollins.bsky.social @voldsgaard.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MB_...

Ed Poole speaks to Sheridan Kates about Fiscal Referees

YouTube video by Amplify with Ed Poole

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This was a surprisingly moving listen/article. I had not heard of public banking. This is a solid introduction. Also am now a fan of Senator Hasegawa and Money on the Left.

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last wk.

In a fascinating historical turn, Hasegawa walks through the founding of the Bank of North Dakota over a century ago, revealing how the agrarian movement behind the bank actually drew inspiration from progressive public ownership projects underway in Seattle at the time.

One last reminder to publish a shortened version of your Weird Modernisms conference paper, organized by BAMS!

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Final reminder, our Special Issue for the #WeirdModernisms conference invites speakers to publish a shortened version of their paper, an extract, or a summary. Expressions of interest are due tomorrow, 31 July! 🗓️ Email tmr@bams.ac.uk, submissions due 31 August 📨 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

A new week means another #ModWrite Monday! Share with us what you’re working on using the hashtag📖🍵

Green Politics and Public Money with Sheridan Kates moneyontheleft.org/2026/05/02/g...

“My hope is that […] we can build a postnormal, inclusive and sustainable world and unzip our ‘normal-person suits’ (along with our normal-person monetary imaginations) together.”

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last wk.

Ain't money weird?

Ain't money weird?

Weird Epistemologies of Money and Trust in Fitzgerald, Ford, and Larsen; or, Isn’t Money Weird?

By Rob Hawkes What follows is a slightly expanded version of a talk I gave at the ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference at Loughborough University, UK (1-4 July 2026), a collaboration between the UK-based …

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This and the podcast I did with @videotroph.bsky.social marks the completion of our Socially Necessary Graeber Time for at least 1,000 years

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last wk.

"If the whole system is a bureaucracy of made-up debts and accusations, then democratic action appears mainly as refusal and jubilee: organizing as debtors, confronting creditors, wiping the slate clean."

“The Seattle Loop is a proposal to establish a municipal bank that can purchase Seattle’s bonds. When the city pays interest on those bonds, the money flows back from the bank into the city’s own general fund, where it can support further lending and public investment”

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last wk.

Prototyping Democratic Public Finance With the Seattle Loop

Big thx to @victorpickard.bsky.social for joining us again to help us make sense of the variously capitalistic, oligarchic & authoritarian U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. The big take-away: robust democracies require robust public media. Now is the time to imagine & build otherwise!

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last wk.

✨ MotL 93 is live! ✨ @victorpickard.bsky.social returns to Money on the Left 6 years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. moneyontheleft.org/2026/08/01/d... Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 * Transcript forthcoming ...