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@FadhelKaboub The Power of a United Africa w/ @FadhelKaboub. Join us for the YouTube premiere of our latest ep. tonight @ 7 pm ET! #Africa #GlobalSouth #ClassWar youtube.com/watch?v=QD69k_…

Imagine the worthlessness of the reich... imagine believing paper, digits, freely created and spent into existence by the currency issuing government is somehow "running out of other people's money". This is the kind of idiocy the proverbial guillotine was made for.

Rand Paul @RandPaul

a day ago

“The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.” -Margaret Thatcher

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This utterly worthless shitstain doesn't realize the government is a currency issuer. That "debt" is a policy choice to sell bonds. Bonds his grifting ass probably has in his portfolio... its all new money. Every time the government spends. Utterly economic illiteracy.

Ben Shapiro @benshapiro

19 hours ago

Please explain how capitalism is responsible for tens of trillions of dollars in government overspending.

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Macro n Chill TONIGHT 10/13 @ 8PM ET and 5PM PT: The Power of a United Africa with @FadhelKaboub The old international order was built on a hierarchy, with a few blocs at the top extracting and most of the world at the bottom being extracted from. Tonight at Macro ‘n Chill, we ask what it would take to flatten that hierarchy and who has the material power to do it. We’ll be listening to our 400th episode!! “The Power of a United Africa” ft. fan fave, Fadhel Kaboub. Steve sits down with Fadhel to walk through a blueprint for African unity built on strategic minerals, joint industrial policy, and coordinated diplomacy. It draws on the Southern Africa Resource Watch report. The TL;DR version of what to expect: • Going it alone keeps you at the bottom. Fadhel argues that national industrial policy pursued in isolation leaves every country stuck beside its equally stuck neighbor. Cooperation is how sovereignty gets built. • Change the question being asked. The shift is from project bankability to development viability, and from financing infrastructure to transforming productive capacity. • Bargain as a bloc. A large enough bloc can ask for technology transfer and in-kind contributions to joint ventures, not another loan. Profit and wage shares are settled in advance, so workers are in the deal from the start. • The prize is real. Access to strategic minerals, renewable energy potential, and a future market of 4 billion people gives the bloc leverage, and Fadhel says it is time to use it. Fadhel puts the stakes this way: “This would be the first time in history where a major repositioning literally taking billions of people from the bottom of the economic hierarchy and uplifting billions of people into decent quality of life and prosperity, and doing this without invading any other country, without enslaving any other people.” Bring your own thoughts and questions. Some starting points: • Where does a currency-issuing government’s real constraint sit when the problem is food and fuel imports, not money? • What stops a bloc from being split apart again, and what does the history of divide and rule teach us? • What can workers in the imperial core do to clear the road instead of blocking it? Good faith disagreement is welcome and so are basic questions. This is a room for working people to work out how the world is organized and how to change it. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Macro N Cheese episode #400 “The Power of a United Africa” with Fadhel Kaboub. @⁨fadhelkaboub⁩ lays out how Africa can industrialize as a bloc: technology transfer instead of debt, national currencies, and a security pact against blowback. Full episode on all podcast platforms and on our website w/ extras: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-ep… Substack: substack.com/@realprogressi…

@FadhelKaboub How can African countries unite as a bloc against neocolonialism? Join us Tues. 10/13 @ 8 pm ET to listen to and discuss our latest ep. ft. @FadhelKaboub! #Africa #GlobalSouth #ClassWar Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

@FadhelKaboub @FadhelKaboub lays out how #Africa can industrialize as a bloc: technology transfer instead of debt, national currencies, and a security pact against blowback. #GlobalSouth #ClassStruggle Listen to our latest ep: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-ep… Substack: substack.com/@realprogressi…

You can't borrow your way into #development - You can't #export your way there either. Link to full #MacroNCheese ep ft @FadhelKaboub : realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-ep…

Spot on. The only thing that tells an even more powerful study besides debunking debt and deficit fears in understanding the underlying stratification.

Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton

6 days ago

The @WSJ wants you to worry about the federal government's red ink. It would be nice if they bothered to show the black ink that spills onto the private sector's side of the ledger.

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There is a gap that is sadly skipped, misunderstood, scary? The lack of a real democracy whenever a government and its laws are based on capitalism and capitalist relations. MMT is a dead on framework for understanding macroeconomics and how fiat currencies work, but it isn't the theory of everything. Since the cosplay of electoral salvation keeps coming up and the lack of real agency never addressed the idea that we just have to teach them completely misses class antagonisms and ultimately creates a lot of skeptics. MMT is unassailable. Pretending we can vote it away is NOT MMT. But far too often the politics of people who pretend we can vote it away obscures the value MMT provides to working class in understanding what is being done TO THEM vs "for them"... governments and institutions represent the ruling capital order. Not the people.

Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy

6 days ago

When will politicians turn to MMT? The answer is: in a time of crisis when it is apparent that neoliberalism has failed. And when will that be? Quite soon, on the basis of current progress. youtu.be/0S5Ad4WpCCE?si…

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#Imperialism needs African minerals, African markets, African #energy. That dependence can be a weapon if #Africa wields it as a bloc. New Macro N Cheese ep ft @FadhelKaboub Sat 10/10 @ 8 am ET. Link to all eps: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/ @FadhelKaboub

Our 400th Episode!! 🥳 Going it alone in the name of nat'l sovereignty locks you at the bottom of the global hierarchy, right next to your neighbor. @FadhelKaboub explains why African sovereignty has to be built as a bloc & how to make it happen. realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-ep…

Resistance and Resilience ft. Pieter de Beer Join us for our YouTube premiere tonight @ 7 pm ET! #Coordination #Trust #Community youtube.com/watch?v=se6-RF…

Why is showing up and building #community so essential for sustainable #workingclass movements? Join us tonight @ 8 pm ET for Macro n Chill to listen to & discuss our latest @CheeseMacro ep. ft. Pieter de Beer! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Tonight at 8pm ET / 5 pm PT Resistance & Resilience, ft Pieter De Beer You’re invited to Macro ‘n Chill, our weekly Zoom gathering where the podcast is the jumping-off point for conversation among the community. Tonight we’re discussing Steve’s interview with anarchist writer and organizer Pieter de Beer. Pieter and Steve come from different theoretical traditions, but they meet on a practical question we hear all the time: If we can’t vote our way out of capitalism, what’s the plan? Pieter argues for building resilient communities through mutual aid, cooperatives, community land trusts, self-provisioning, and networks that reduce our dependence on capitalist institutions. But his definition of capitalism, and especially his conception of the state as a “pattern of control,” raises some interesting questions from a historical materialist perspective. Where do anarchists and Marxist-Leninists find common ground? Where do their analyses fundamentally diverge? And can these parallel institutions actually challenge capitalist power, or are they part of a broader struggle over the relations of production? Join us tonight and let’s dig in. @everyone TONIGHT Tuesday October 6 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT REGISTER HERE – You will receive an email with the Zoom link us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The National Debt Is A TRICK To Make The Rich RICHER & Keep YOU Poor! In case you missed it on Rumble, check it out the latest appearance by @sdgrumbine on the @jimmy_dore on YouTube. #NationalDebt #LearnMMT #ClassWar youtube.com/watch?v=EaXogc…

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Macro n Cheese Podcast #MMT @CheeseMacro

a month ago

Think #WW2 bond drives paid for the war? Wrong. War #bonds were about controlling #inflation - @John_T_Harvey “the Cowboy Economist” explains. Link to full Macro N Cheese episode in comment below 👇

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Episode 399 – Resistance and Resilience with Pieter de Beer October 3, 2026 If electoral politics isn’t the plan, what does building an alternative actually look like? An anarchist and a Marxist-Leninist get together to exchange ideas. #election #empathy #values