Will Beaman
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Our featured image for this post comes from Chuck Jones' deliciously self-reflexive Merrie Melodies short Duck Amuck (1953). We chose it because it so vividly demonstrates how any act of erasure requires fresh and hence contestable inscriptions.
"[R]efusal, too, leaves people entangled, and therefore requires mediated care and empowerment both for those who refuse and for those who live with its aftermath."
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
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November 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Our featured image for this post comes from Chuck Jones' deliciously self-reflexive Merrie Melodies short Duck Amuck (1953). We chose it because it so vividly demonstrates how any act of erasure requires fresh and hence contestable inscriptions.
Reposted by Will Beaman
"[R]efusal, too, leaves people entangled, and therefore requires mediated care and empowerment both for those who refuse and for those who live with its aftermath."
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
moneyontheleft.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"[R]efusal, too, leaves people entangled, and therefore requires mediated care and empowerment both for those who refuse and for those who live with its aftermath."
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We cannot allow the constraints of private profit to obstruct the necessary path toward collective flourishing and stability.
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 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We cannot allow the constraints of private profit to obstruct the necessary path toward collective flourishing and stability.
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"Our disagreement with Graeber is not meant to litigate whether communities should be able to refuse. Refusal is indispensable—full stop. Our concern, rather, pertains to the ground of that refusal and what political possibilities follow from it."
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
moneyontheleft.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Our disagreement with Graeber is not meant to litigate whether communities should be able to refuse. Refusal is indispensable—full stop. Our concern, rather, pertains to the ground of that refusal and what political possibilities follow from it."
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"Baseline or everyday communism [in Graeber's work] comes across as a primordial, pre-coordinative ethic—an encounter between persons removed from institutional or public timetables—rather than as something that is itself shaped by ongoing arrangements of care, coercion, and provision."
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
moneyontheleft.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Baseline or everyday communism [in Graeber's work] comes across as a primordial, pre-coordinative ethic—an encounter between persons removed from institutional or public timetables—rather than as something that is itself shaped by ongoing arrangements of care, coercion, and provision."
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"Reckoning with the limits of jubilee politics becomes unavoidable when left economic discourse turns from critique to governance."
✨ New Essay! ✨
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
moneyontheleft.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Reckoning with the limits of jubilee politics becomes unavoidable when left economic discourse turns from critique to governance."
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@greenbackbetter.bsky.social and @videotroph.bsky.social are writing among the most visionary pieces today about how we can understand public finance in order to change it, and the trajectory of their vision is one that I hope will someday (soon) win the status of "common sense" on the Left.
✨ New Essay! ✨
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
moneyontheleft.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social and @videotroph.bsky.social are writing among the most visionary pieces today about how we can understand public finance in order to change it, and the trajectory of their vision is one that I hope will someday (soon) win the status of "common sense" on the Left.
Reposted by Will Beaman
✨ New Essay! ✨
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
moneyontheleft.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
✨ New Essay! ✨
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by @videotroph.bsky.social and myself. I'm hopeful that this essay will be a useful reference for a long time. Read and share!!! 🧡
by @videotroph.bsky.social and myself. I'm hopeful that this essay will be a useful reference for a long time. Read and share!!! 🧡
✨ New Essay! ✨
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social & @videotroph.bsky.social argue that, while David Graeber remains vital for leftist praxis, his "utopia of refusal" places a ceiling on what we can imagine & accomplish.
Please read & share. 👩💻 🙌
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
moneyontheleft.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by @videotroph.bsky.social and myself. I'm hopeful that this essay will be a useful reference for a long time. Read and share!!! 🧡
by @videotroph.bsky.social and myself. I'm hopeful that this essay will be a useful reference for a long time. Read and share!!! 🧡
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10K jobs a year?! Once again, it doesn’t need to be this way.
“Now is the moment to think boldly and creatively about the financing of British universities. If higher education genuinely matters, then the state possesses all the monetary power needed to support it. The question is not if, but how.”
“Now is the moment to think boldly and creatively about the financing of British universities. If higher education genuinely matters, then the state possesses all the monetary power needed to support it. The question is not if, but how.”
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
10K jobs a year?! Once again, it doesn’t need to be this way.
“Now is the moment to think boldly and creatively about the financing of British universities. If higher education genuinely matters, then the state possesses all the monetary power needed to support it. The question is not if, but how.”
“Now is the moment to think boldly and creatively about the financing of British universities. If higher education genuinely matters, then the state possesses all the monetary power needed to support it. The question is not if, but how.”
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “The fact that the asphyxiation of British higher education does not instantly count as a national scandal underlines the extent to which the austerity mindset continues to constrain our political imagination”.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/01/16/u...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/01/16/u...
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
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “The fact that the asphyxiation of British higher education does not instantly count as a national scandal underlines the extent to which the austerity mindset continues to constrain our political imagination”.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/01/16/u...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/01/16/u...
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Very excited to be part of the audience for @robbhawkes.bsky.social and Robyn Ollett’s research seminar at #TeessideUniversity
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Very excited to be part of the audience for @robbhawkes.bsky.social and Robyn Ollett’s research seminar at #TeessideUniversity
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The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
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Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
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"In this moment, deferral is really not an option."
Democratic Public Finance
Billy Saas and Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance” (DPF). According to this paradigm, money is public cred…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"In this moment, deferral is really not an option."
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“[W]e need to expand the public’s financial toolkit beyond traditional loans to include grants.”
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 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“[W]e need to expand the public’s financial toolkit beyond traditional loans to include grants.”
For all the talk about how the Left is about purity tests and cancel culture, it’s Meet the Press who is stuck on this question
He's the mayor-elect of America's largest city and financial capital. What kind of a question is this?
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
For all the talk about how the Left is about purity tests and cancel culture, it’s Meet the Press who is stuck on this question
Trump treating Mamdani with more respect than he would be treating Cuomo right now is so funny
caveat that his brain is mush, his viziers are comic book villains, etc, but Trump going from a war footing to this justifies the whole trip
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Trump treating Mamdani with more respect than he would be treating Cuomo right now is so funny
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Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
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✨New transcript!✨
Ears tired? Hate listening to podcasts?
Well, now you can *read* our latest episode outlining the stakes & principles of Democratic Public Finance.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
How lucky for you!
Ears tired? Hate listening to podcasts?
Well, now you can *read* our latest episode outlining the stakes & principles of Democratic Public Finance.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
How lucky for you!
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
✨New transcript!✨
Ears tired? Hate listening to podcasts?
Well, now you can *read* our latest episode outlining the stakes & principles of Democratic Public Finance.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
How lucky for you!
Ears tired? Hate listening to podcasts?
Well, now you can *read* our latest episode outlining the stakes & principles of Democratic Public Finance.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
How lucky for you!
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Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
Missouri GOP Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
It's 2026 and Marjorie Taylor Green is the Monday cohost of Hill TV's 'Rising' with Ryan Grim
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It's 2026 and Marjorie Taylor Green is the Monday cohost of Hill TV's 'Rising' with Ryan Grim
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Two Queens, natives with opposing views, to meet at White House today
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Two Queens, natives with opposing views, to meet at White House today