Beyond money – imagining life without money (Part 36)

Описание: 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

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