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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Money is presented as natural, neutral and inevitable - the silent engine of modern life. But the real history of money tells a very different story. In this chapter we explore: 💰 The myth of barter Why early societies did not function through swapping goods - and why money began as credit, obligation and trust. 🏛 Money and the State How coins were invented to pay armies, enforce taxes and centralise power. 🐚 Alternative currencies Cowries in West Africa, wampum in North America, China’s early paper money - each revealing that money is a political technology, not a natural fact. ⚔️ Capitalism’s violent rise Mercantilism, colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, enclosure and primitive accumulation - how money became global through conquest and coercion. 🏭 Industrial capitalism & wage slavery The shift from peasants and commons to workers and factories - and how dependency on wages was engineered, not chosen. 💸 Finance, neoliberalism & surveillance capitalism From the IMF to the gig economy - how modern capitalism deepened money’s power. 🪙 Cryptocurrencies: freedom or illusion? Bitcoin, CBDCs and why digital money repeats the same struggles over trust, power and control. 🎯 Core message: Money has never been neutral. From its origins to its digital future, it has been a tool for domination - binding people into markets, dependency and hierarchy. This part lays the groundwork for what comes next: Wage slavery, markets, and why capitalism cannot be “fixed.” From the book: Chapter 5 - The problem with capitalism and money 32. The history of money Cryptocurrencies – better? 33. The rise of capitalism Mercantilism and early accumulation The Atlantic slave trade and plantation economies Industrial capitalism and wage labour Capitalism goes global Finance capitalism and neoliberalism Why this history matters? ► Full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDT6pJU3_gViYVxWUTl8PcR29sW0GAcQK&si=mwI-OwKKJRUbLzoD ► Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1864387554451463/ ► Buy the book: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=9dOIqr4EMtGT3x43Y9bhrmDaCPKCIzif4Y1dUjMvxgr If this helped shift your understanding, please like, comment and share - it keeps the series alive.