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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In this episode, we start a new chapter and confront one of the deepest taboos of modern life – the idea that money is not inevitable. Money is treated as natural, eternal and necessary, yet it functions as a system of control that regulates survival, access to resources and obedience. We explore why a world without money feels unthinkable, how belief in money mirrors religious and political faith, and why imagination itself has been colonised by capitalist realism. Looking to history, we examine gift economies, ritual redistribution and the European commons – systems that organised survival without markets, wages or profit. This episode asks not how to abolish money overnight, but why its absence feels more terrifying than ecological collapse – and what that tells us about power, dependency and belief. 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. 📚 From the book: Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination 📌 Sections in this episode: • 64. Introduction – imagining life without money • 65. Historical precedents – gift economies, potlatch and the commons Ritual redistribution – potlatch and feasts Case study – the European commons – a shared economy of survival Lessons for the present – echoes in today’s commons ► 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