A common thread among a lot of "leftist" criticisms of the #MMT community is outrage that advocates would recognize each other as part of the same intellectual project and not as atomized participants in the Left's marketplace of ideas. 1/n 
There's no room for a thought collective in this space. Relationships between thinkers must end at the conclusion of a blog post. Otherwise it's bad faith and cultlike behavior (anti-competitive, if you like) that undermines the market's process of choosing the best ideas. 2/n
Of course, these pure liberal marketplaces don't just appear naturally. There's always a self-appointed cadre that sets them up and polices the boundaries of debate and behavior of participants in the name of free exchange. 3/n
Setting aside whether there's an agenda behind policing the MMT debates, the kneejerk hostility to social behavior as anti-democratic (because it's anti-competitive) is pure neoliberal dogma. And it's paralyzing. 4/4
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