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: Direct Action and Mutual Aid (Part 46)

In this episode of Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination, we explore direct action and mutual aid not as protest politics, but as lived alternatives. This section moves beyond marches and slogans to examine how people are already building food systems, housing, transport and care networks without the State or markets. From Food Not Bombs and repair cafés to squats, traveller sites and low-tech living, direct action is shown as construction, not just resistance. Global examples – from Argentina and Rojava to Uganda and Cuba – reveal how communities organise survival and dignity under pressure. This episode asks a harder question than “how do we resist?” It asks: what does it mean to live the future now? 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: • 77. Direct action and mutual aid • Building alternatives, not just resistance • Global case studies • The low-tech and everyday dimension • Direct action as prefiguration ► 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

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