Practical Anarchy - A Guide to Self Determination

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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Currently Playing: Looking Beyond Money (part 25)

In this episode of Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination, we look directly at one of the strongest chains holding modern life together: money. If money feels unavoidable, that’s not an accident. From childhood we’re taught to equate money with survival, safety and worth. But money is not a law of nature – it’s a social technology, enforced by States, markets and wage dependency. This section asks the question most systems refuse to touch: what happens when we imagine life beyond money itself? Drawing on history, anthropology and everyday practice, this episode explores how value, care and cooperation already exist outside the cash nexus – and why capitalism works so hard to make that invisible. This series follows the structure of the book and builds a connected critique of power, money, the State, work, control, 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: 45. Looking beyond money 46. Chapter conclusion – breaking the chains of money and wage slavery The next parts will cover Chapter 6 in the book where we five headfirst into religion… ► 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 #money #wageslavery #mutualaid #commons #politicaleducation

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