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.
Curated by: Dicky Dread's mixes and books (67 videos)
In this episode of Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination, we examine real-world experiments that already operate beyond money, hierarchy and State control. From digital commons and peer production to mutual aid networks, countercultures and degrowth movements, this section shows that cooperation without markets is not a utopian fantasy but a lived reality - repeatedly built, repeatedly suppressed. We also explore why money keeps returning: how barter reproduces transactional logic, how markets reinvent themselves as freedom, and how green capitalism and ESG frameworks absorb resistance while leaving exploitation intact. This episode draws together the arguments and prepares the ground to ask how these fragments might scale into a coherent resource-based society. 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: • 68. Experiments and glimpses today • Commons-based peer production • Digital commons and cooperative platforms • Local mutual aid networks and free stores • Countercultural practices – travellers, ravers and off-grid dwellers • Repression of countercultures (UK, US and Europe) • Squats, autonomous centres and urban commons • Transition Towns and degrowth movements • Lessons and limits • Mini-conclusion – glimpses to transformation • Why money keeps coming back? • Barter, gifts and the return of exchange logic • Markets disguised as freedom – the Silk Road example • Green capitalism and ESG as co-option • Why this matters This project is about: • Exposing hidden systems of power • Reclaiming autonomy • Mutual aid over hierarchy • Life beyond wage slavery and State control ► 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 #mutualaid #commons #counterculture #degrowth #anticapitalism