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About Jimmy Centeno

Jimmy Centeno is an independent curator for various venues throughout the city of Los Angeles. He is an associate member of AFYL, Association of Philosophy and Liberation. He is the founder of LAAR, Latin American Art Research. He is a welder by trade and has taught welding technology at Compton Community College. He is a self taught artist and writer.
  • Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin’s 'Chicana on Fire' (2022)

    With fire and courage

    Jimmy Centeno

    Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin’s poetry in Chicana on Fire (2022) is testimonial and collective.

  • José Martí Monument 2019

    On Photography: Space and Place

    Jimmy Centeno

    The simple quietness in Leiva’s photography reveals his poetic contemplation while exposing the loss of visual honesty in an era of hyper imagery manipulation.

  • Yo Soy American (I am American)

    “Yo Soy” (I Am): an act of visual rebellion by Victor Garcia

    Jimmy Centeno

    Garcia’s series highlights the imposition of racism as an insidious paradigm, defining who is, and what makes, an “American.”

  • Scene from The Young Karl Marx

    A Review of The Young Karl Marx

    Jimmy Centeno

    The success of The Young Karl Marx derives from Peck’s ability to demonstrate the relevance of Marx for the present.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey
    Jimmy Centeno

    We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the […]

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Jimmy Centeno

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Jimmy Centeno

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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