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: WHAT PEOPLE GET WRONG ABOUT GLOBAL CHANGE

📖 PART 64. Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination In this episode, we examine a common belief: that global coordination can only happen through powerful states, treaties and military enforcement. This idea feels intuitive. The problems we face – climate collapse, pandemics, war – are planetary in scale, so people assume only global institutions with coercive power can address them. What gets ignored is how much coordination already happens outside states: between cities, communities, indigenous groups and commons-based networks. This episode explores how global cooperation could grow from below – through federations, commons treaties and demilitarisation – without becoming a world government. Rather than offering utopias or blueprints, this project asks what might actually work – and what quietly reproduces hierarchy, authority and control on a global scale. BOOK CONTEXT 📚 From the book: Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination • Section 95 – Global phases – G1 to G4 G1 – City-to-city pacts (5–15 years) G2 – Commons treaties (15–30 years) G3 – Demilitarisation compacts (30–50 years) G4 – Planetary confederation (50–100 years) Convincing steps, realistic timescales LINKS ► 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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