
Money on the Left
Money on the Left is a monthly, interdisciplinary podcast that reclaims money’s public powers for intersectional politics. Staging critical conversations with leading historians, theorists, organizers, and activists, the show draws upon Modern Monetary Theory and constitutional approaches to money to advance new forms of left critique and practice. It is hosted by William Saas and Scott Ferguson and presented in partnership with Monthly Review magazine. Check out our website: https://moneyontheleft.org Follow us on Bluesky @moneyontheleft.bsky.social and on Twitter & Facebook at @moneyontheleft
Latest episodes

Jul 2, 2021 • 1h 3min
Superstructure: 25 - The Official MMT Personality Test
Hosts Natalie Smith and Maxximilian Seijo dive into the world of personality types as exemplified by the likes of astrology, MBTI and Enneagram. Complicating John Ganz’s recent dismissal of personal types as univocal, alienating and repressive, Naty and Maxx queer such typologies, drawing attention to their playful, generative and relational meanings. Sprinkled with references to Adorno, Deleuze, Leibniz, and Hegel, the episode treats astrology, MBTI and Enneagram as analogical practices and asks how such practices can inform a non-zero-sum left politics of money. Link to Ganz's essay: https://johnganz.substack.com/p/thats-not-a-personality-sweetie

Jul 2, 2021 • 14min
Processions: 10 - The Agamben Relation
Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies, (Page 272-273)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Jul 1, 2021 • 1h 19min
Digital Money Beyond Blockchain with Rohan Grey (Re-release)
The Money on the Left Editorial Collective presents a classic episode from our archives along with a previously unavailable transcript & graphic art. In this episode, we’re joined by Rohan Grey (@rohangrey), President of the Modern Money Network, Director of the National Jobs for All Coalition, Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and JSD student at Cornell Law school.Our conversation is dedicated to Rohan’s current work on the political, economic, and cultural implications of money’s digital future.Rohan’s report on digital fiat money: “The Case for Digital Legal Tender: The Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Digital Fiat Currency.”Theme music by Hillbilly Motobike.Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureLink to our GoFundMe: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/money-on-the-left-superstructure

Jul 1, 2021 • 6min
Processions: 9 - Colonialism-for-itself
Ndongo Samba Sylla, Colonialism’s Neoliberal Origins (https://moneyontheleft.org/2021/06/14/neoliberalisms-colonial-origins/)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Jun 30, 2021 • 11min
Processions: 8 - Hegel Falls From Heaven
G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Page 90)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Jun 29, 2021 • 9min
Processions: 7 - Infinity Sign
Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Page 8-9)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Jun 28, 2021 • 10min
Processions: 6 - Marx's Essence
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (Page 127-128)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Jun 18, 2021 • 12min
Processions: 5 - Hall of Mirrors
Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Vol. 2): Identity and Diaspora, "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" (Page 67)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon for more: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Jun 17, 2021 • 13min
Processions: 4 - Performing Money
Rebecca L. Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Page 6)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon for more: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)

Jun 16, 2021 • 8min
Processions: 3 - Our Journey
Inferno, by Dante Alighieri (Canto 1, lines 1-15)In Processions, host Maxximilian Seijo reads and reflects on one page of a given text, five days a week. Taking a tour through a vast array of thinkers, concepts and methods, one snapshot at a time, Maxx explores the redemptive capacity of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective’s method of analogical critique. After the first five episodes, Processions will be released as a Patreon delayed exclusive. Episodes will be available for public listening seven days later.Subscribe to our Patreon for more: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula (https://www.nahneenkula.com)