• hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Even if that's true, and I'm not sure it is, MMT is great for advancing the cause of socialism in the first place.

    1. It's a direct answer to "how do you pay for it?" deficit scolds who want to pretend that the richest country on the planet can't afford universal healthcare.
    2. It shows that deficit scolds in both parties don't really know what they're talking about (at least at the federal level), and criticizing Democrats from a non-chud perspective is the gateway to the left.
    3. It ties in nicely with the idea that austerity economics is an ideological goal, not a sober approach to real problems.

    Right now it's good and useful, even if in a socialist utopia we might discover it isn't needed.