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Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY, senior fellow at the Groundwork Collaborative. Blog and other writing: jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad.

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Either way the interesting thing is how the correct but vague memory of a single Dem vote against Empire gets misattributed to Sanders.

02.03.2026 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Possibly confused with the vote on the AUMF for Afghanistan, which there was indeed only one vote against. That no vote was however Barbara Lee, not Bernie.

02.03.2026 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Establishment Democrats aren't against Iran bombing, they're just pouting about not being asked.

01.03.2026 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 351    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4

Society is getting smarter, and dumbness is fighting back harder in response.

02.03.2026 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If the Israeli strikes are precise enough to track the locations of top leaders of the Iranian government, they certainly know when they are targeting a school.

02.03.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A, and I am sorry to say that that person is not me.

01.03.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s organized mass murder, that all. Not much nuance there.

01.03.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just guessing.

01.03.2026 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Because your work is not as useful as a plumber's.

01.03.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When I look around our society and compare the value people seem to be producing vs the income they are getting, a plumber earning $200,000 a year does not stand out as a particular mismatch.

01.03.2026 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems fine to me. It's useful work.

01.03.2026 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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There are reports of US/Israeli strikes on or near the homes of former Iranian pres, Ahmadinejad, former reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and various leftist activists. If the US/Israel really wanted the β€œpeople” to take back the country, they wouldn’t assassinate these folks

28.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Syria really is the best example until up last night, in my opinion. The Syrians overthrow a dictatorship which altogether was not very friendly to Israel and in response the Israelis invaded, occupied, and have in some ways already de facto annexed more Syrian territory while bombing Damascus.

28.02.2026 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 747    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
Israeli media reporting that the US and Israel have divided up the Iran attack thus: the US is targeting infrastructure, Israel is focussed on taking out Iran's leadership

Israeli media reporting that the US and Israel have divided up the Iran attack thus: the US is targeting infrastructure, Israel is focussed on taking out Iran's leadership

It should go without saying that the aim here is to collapse Iran - a country of ninety million people - into ungovernable chaos and Mad Max-style warlord catastrophe, much as they have every other country from Libya to Afghanistan that they could not buy off.

28.02.2026 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 864    πŸ” 286    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 14

Why is this necessary? Why does one have to immediately affirm that one Hates the Enemy?

28.02.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

igualmente?

28.02.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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the only fucking decent European leader, again!

apparently, the rest are back to happy vassals, cheering US and Israel into another war.

28.02.2026 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Keep teaching the world the same lesson: Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Iran didn't, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel did--US beats you up if you *don't* build nukes, not if you do.

28.02.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It would have been much better for the world if Iran had acquired nuclear weapons. It’s hard to imagine what could stop the lawless violence from Washington and Tel Aviv except for a credible threat of retaliation from its victims.

28.02.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

I think the mistake of attributing the actions of states to the nature of the people they rule over is part of how we got here.

28.02.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wrote government, not regime. And I wrote capacity, not intention.

I don’t know about people, but this is certainly what the US state is.

28.02.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am horrified and appalled at the attacks on Iran by the murderous regimes of the United States and Israel. There's no future for humanity without dismantling the capacity for violence of states like these. I don't know what else there is to say here.

28.02.2026 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 124    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

this was a grad student presentation of work that’s still in an early stage.

27.02.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thatβ€˜s it for today. So far, I would say our first-ever political economy conference at John Jay could not have gone any better. There is another full day of panels tomorrow. Unfortunately I cannot be there for them, but you can see the program here: johnjayeconomics.org/wp-content/u...

27.02.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely yes.

27.02.2026 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The layoff mania of the last few years in tech is, in large part, the non-technical leadership tier of these companies furiously screaming at tech workers to stop having opinions and demanding things.

They want to go back to, we pay big salaries but you STFU.

27.02.2026 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it seems like part of what helps US wannabe labourism keep doing its stupid thing is never once thinking about actually existing labourism anywhere else in the world. once again imho everyone should read Elizabeth Humphry's excellent book: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1360-h...

27.02.2026 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next up is Antonis Gounalakis with "Does (Further) Financialization Promote or Impede Affordability of Housing and Homeownership?" This is a comparative study of efforts to support homeownership in the United States and southern Europe (where homeownership rates are historically quite high.).

27.02.2026 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Marxist economics is alive and well, at least along the UMass-New School-Levy Institute-John Jay axis.

27.02.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now we have Hassan Mujtaba on "Sectoral Rate of Profit and Elite Dynamics: A Case of the United States (US)." Varoufakis' technofeudalism hypothesis investigated with firm-level data on profits from Compustat.

27.02.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0