This playlist presents the main video series based on Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination. Taken together, these episodes form a connected, cumulative argument rather than a collection of standalone videos. Each part builds on what came before, gradually dismantling familiar assumptions about power, authority, money, work, democracy, punishment, technology and control. Rather than treating anarchism as a political identity or future blueprint, the series approaches it as a practical method of analysis. It asks how authority is normalised, how obedience is learned, and how social systems that present themselves as natural or necessary are historically contingent and actively maintained. The series moves from critique to construction. Early sections expose the myths that underpin the State, markets and hierarchy. Later chapters explore how people already organise life outside those frameworks through mutual aid, informal cooperation, shared resources and non-coercive forms of accountability. The emphasis throughout is on understanding why existing systems fail before asking what might replace them. These videos are designed to be watched in sequence. They assume attention, patience and a willingness to question deeply held beliefs. The aim is not persuasion or recruitment, but clarity – offering tools for thinking about freedom, responsibility and social organisation without rulers.
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In this episode of Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination, we move from critique to practice. After dismantling the myths of the State, money, capitalism, religion and party politics, this section asks a harder question: how do we live anarchically here and now, inside systems that still dominate everyday life? This episode explores anarchism not as a distant utopia but as an everyday practice already taking place – through mutual aid, solidarity networks and grassroots care. From disaster responses and pandemic organising to autonomous health initiatives, it shows that communities repeatedly step in where States fail. We focus in particular on health, care and biopolitics – how life itself is managed from above, and how anarchist practices refuse that control by building care horizontally, collectively and without permission. This matters now because crisis exposes the limits of authority – and the real capacity of ordinary people to organise, sustain and protect one another without hierarchy. This series follows the structure of the book and builds a connected critique of power, money, the State, work, control, technology, ecology and resistance – one section at a time. This project is about: • Exposing hidden systems of power • Reclaiming autonomy • Mutual aid over hierarchy • Life beyond wage slavery and State control ✅ From the book: Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination 📚 Sections in this episode: • 73. Introduction – from critique to practice • 74. Health, care and biopolitics ► Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDT6pJU3_gViYVxWUTl8PcR29sW0GAcQK ► Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1864387554451463/ ► Buy the book: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=9dOIqr4EMtGT3x43Y9bhrmDaCPKCIzif4Y1dUjMvxgr #anarchy #mutualaid #biopolitics #autonomy #practicalanarchy #selforganisation #healthandcare