For my friends/followers who are looking for resources on anti-Zionist and diasporist Jewish thought, I want to share some reflections on the Jewish Labour Bund and the Bundist concept of ‘Doikayt.’ Doikayt is a Yiddish term that means “hereness,” and it articulates an alternative to the “thereness” of Zionism.

Perhaps at first glance, the distinction between “here” and “there” doesn’t sound profound. But the “here” of Doikayt outstrips the colloquial meaning.

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A lot of people are understandably confused about the word "univocity" and why we (MMT Humanities) think it's important to point out and critique.

So here is a definition and explanation of why univocity matters. Buckle up. 🧵

1/ Univocity is the idea that words have the same meaning in every context that they're used—as opposed to meanings which are predicated on their context.

Sounds innocuous, but I think a concrete example will illustrate some of the problems.

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Maxx nails it 👇 I know it is weird to hear that money of all things is queer, because we largely associate it with capitalism and commodification.

From our perspective, participation in governance (including monetary governance) mediates individuated wills from the start...

https://twitter.com/MaxSeijo/status/1341648080823848960

...rather than being not imposed from the outside. So monetary governance (i.e. numerically coordinated collective caretaking) is always a contestable political terrain, and money's "answerability" to diverse needs goes deeper than the modern nation-state would like to admit.

Those reading the "Marxism vs. MMT" state theory threads should study the Uni proposal to really understand the MMT intervention here. 1/

https://twitter.com/GISP_Tweets/status/1291066227444584454

Briefly, the Uni is a proposal for universities to self finance as necessary during the COVID crisis by issuing credits called Unis, which the universities would accept as payment for tuitions, rents, etc., thus giving the Uni a degree of money-ness within its "local" sphere. 2/

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