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MMT isn't wrong about currency, but some MMTers are deluded about power - capital won't allow a job guarantee that removes a tactic for taming workers.
๐๐ถ๐ป๐ธ ๐๐ผ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ ๐ก ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฒ๐น ๐ง๐๐๐ & ๐. ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐
#MMT #power #JobGuarantee
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MMT isn't wrong about currency, but some MMTers are deluded about power - capital won't allow a job guarantee that removes a tactic for taming workers.
๐๐ถ๐ป๐ธ ๐๐ผ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ ๐ก ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฒ๐น ๐ง๐๐๐ & ๐. ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐
#MMT #power #JobGuarantee
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![Dialectics of Dominance w/ Aaron Good
โWeโre at an inflection point โ a civilizational crisis. Western imperial dominance is ending, and its dying spasms are only accelerating the collapse.โ Aaron Good
Aaron Good, author of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State, is back to talk with Steve about the crisis of the US-led imperial order and the manufactured โcommon senseโ that keeps people trapped inside a rigged system.
Centuries of Western imperial dominance are unraveling, and the US responds with flailing, genocidal actions in Gaza and Ukraine. These arenโt signs of strength; theyโre the death rattles of a corpse that doesnโt know itโs dead yet.
โRealizing youโre not voting your way out of it might be the most terrifying โaha momentโ of them all.โ Steve Grumbine
At home the two major US parties are presented as alternatives, the ballot is a participation trophy in the โmanaged spectacleโ of elections. Obama? Trump? Biden? Different brands, same oligarchy. Corporate media and algorithmic โalternative mediaโ work together to keep people confused, divided, and clinging to the fantasy that if they just vote harder, donate more, and binge the right โleftโ YouTubers, they can reform a system designed to crush them. The empireโs to-do list (crush dissent, steal resources) remains the same.
What are we to do? Maybe we canโt break the system yet, but we can stop being dupes. See the Matrix.
Aaron Good holds a doctorate in political science from Temple University. He is the author of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. He is the host of American Exception podcast https://americanexception.com/podcast/
Follow Aaronโs work at americanexception.substack.com/
@Aaron_Good_ on X
Chapters:
[00:00:45] Introduction and Overview
[00:01:41] The Terrifying Reality of Political Powerlessness
[00:03:13] The Civilizational Crisis and Western Imperial Decline
[00:06:49] The Engineered Political and Cultural Schisms
[00:09:25] Manufacturing Consent Through Media Control
[00:13:13] The Atomization of Western Political Consciousness
[00:16:19] Revolutionary Conditions and American Exceptionalism
[00:21:00] The Decline of Living Standards Despite Technological Progress
[00:23:33] Managed Democracy and Survival Above Water
[00:25:27] Processing Reality in an Age of Oligarchy
[00:29:01] The Fake Left and Institutional Co-optation
[00:31:00] Shitlib-tube and Progressive Gatekeepers
[00:33:26] The Greater Israel Project as Central Issue
[00:36:58] Online Manipulation and AI-Driven Propaganda
[00:39:22] The Greater Israel Project and Zionism as Fascism
[00:43:12] The Root Problem: Capitalist Oligarchy
[00:46:21] The Cycle of Austerity and Blaming the Poor
[00:49:33] The Construction of Whiteness and Fake Solidarity
[00:52:24] Bacons Rebellion and Dividing the Working Class
[00:54:13] Japanese Translation and Imperial History
[00:59:06] Post-WWII Japan as US Satellite State
[01:03:18] Closing Remarks and Where to Find More
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