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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Part 51. In this episode of Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination, we examine one of the most common objections to anarchism: what about crime? Rather than treating harm as proof that the State is necessary, this section shows how most crime emerges from inequality, deprivation and social breakdown. We explore why punishment fails, how restorative and community-based justice actually works, and why many acts labelled “crime” exist only to defend property and authority. Crime is not denied here – it is reframed as a collective responsibility rather than a justification for prisons, policing and coercion. 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: • 82. Crime and accountability in a free society • The roots of crime • Would crime exist in a free society? • Beyond punishment – alternatives to State justice • The hard cases – sexual crime and psychopathy • Crime as social construction • Justice as collective responsibility • Why not to hate the rich ► 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 #abolition #justice #crime #inequality #restorativejustice #mutualaid #practicalanarchy #politicaltheory #socialchange Note that iunder the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971), possession, supply and production of controlled drugs are offences – drug use itself is not explicitly criminalised, so when I state in the video that drug use is illegal - bear this in mind.