The Moneyless Society Podcast

The Carnage of Car Culture with Matthew Lewis

Honk honk! VROOM VROOM! Here's a joke for yall: what has 4 wheels that poison groundwater with microplastic runoff, is the number one killer of children AND community, and maybe the end of all human life as we know it? Duh, it's CAR CULTURE, the industrial death trap we've created around these machines that now control us. We're joined by activist Matthew Lewis to dismantle this toxic behemoth of an issue. Consider this part 1, the problem, to be followed up by a special episode unveiling the visionary solution. The fact that many of you will listen to this episode IN A CAR is cruel irony. HONK HONK!

Money is Unsustainable with Anitra Nelson

What's wrong with money? Is it "just a tool"? Are markets sustainable? We talk with activist-scholar Anitra Nelson, author of Beyond Money: a Postcapitalist Strategy, to break down why money itself really is a core problem, and how we can work to transcend it. We talk de-growth, localized solutions, market dynamics, technology, and really get to the heart of what this movement is all about: creating better, saner, healthier, more ecological alternatives!

Movement Therapy for Movement Building with Toni Nagy

Today's guest is the indescribable tik tok sensation Toni Nagy, a radical comedian, dancer, and somatic coach. She leads us in some movement therapy to shake out the seasonal affective disorder and we have a limber, ever changing, funny, insightful conversation about the ways movement has been stolen from us by our constrictive capitalist system. We talk about the constriction of social norms, individuality, suffering, life, death, revolution--we always keep it moving! This is a totally unique show with a weird and wonderful guest. Get movin!

The Green Transition is Impossible in This System with Simon Michaux

Simon Michaux is a professor and geophysicist whose work in the commercial mining industry has given him an inside-out view of our system. His current work has calculated that the quantity and quality of metals needed for the green transition to EVs with solar and wind is physically impossible. This is an explosive conversation blasting apart all the fantasies of green capitalism, from green consumerism to the World Economic Forum's fourth industrial revolution. We take a cold hard look at the physical reality of our crisis and the NEW SYSTEM we must create to overcome these limits. Simon is the MAN so don't miss this talk!

Dual Power to the People with Demetrius of Black Socialists of America

POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Dual power is a revolutionary concept of building a parallel economic system to counter the establishment, building the new in the shell of the old. Today's episode we talk with Demetrius from Black Socialists in America, a revolutionary black anti authoritarian collective working to build and network dual power projects all over the US. This episode is also the first appearance of Ron Wolfe, the superstar young revolutionary that's been killing it on the MoSo tik tok.

Ron is currently struggling with housing and living in a sedan with his girlfriend, please support their cause! https://gofund.me/c5d25296

Making Hierarchy Obsolete with Holocracy One

Holocracy is a new management system to make hierarchy obsolete. Sounds radical, right? This system that eliminates bosses, empowers workers and enables collective decision making was developed from inside the corporate world by CEO and software developer Brian Robertson (today's guest). Corporate anarchy--what?? We go deep into this truly radical new operating system and unpack how it works, WHY it's necessary, we talk anarchism, "conscious" capitalism, and of course, making the old systems obsolete with NEW ones that are just simply better!

Anarchospirituality

Omm! TUNE IN to this profound dialogue with David Hanuman Dass @anarchospirituality about the intersection of radical politics and spirituality. We talk about cultural appropriation, mcmindfulness, the ways spirituality is being turned into an opiate of the masses, as well as our own personal spiritual practice and how these ancient teachings can lead us to revolution. 

Steps to a Resource Based Economy with RBE United

A RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY is an idea so grand we've been developing it across dozens of shows and videos-- it is the foundation and the clearest vision of where we go from here. In this episode we talk with Aboubakre Haraket founder of RBE United, an organization devoted to building steps to the future in the Phillipines and beyond. This episode is a great primer on this profound, world-saving IDEA and a powerful step toward bringing about the transition, getting from HERE to THERE.

Going Beyond Capitalism with Richard Wolff

The man needs no introduction...professor Richard Wolff, or as he's known to his friends and comrades, RICK, joins us to talk about going BEYOND capitalism. This system doesn't work, so what comes next and how do we get there?

Going Upstream to the Root of our Problems

What is the root cause of our global problems? It's not enough to deal with the symptoms, we're looking for the root causes, and who better to go there with than Della Duncan and Robert Raymond of the fabulous UPSTREAM podcast about unlearning everything you think you know about economics to go beyond capitalism and imagine alternative economics systems that truly benefit us all!

 

We talk about what that root cause is, talk about Marxism, systems thinking, MONEY, and discuss the long awaited Moneyless Society book with Della who was the first person to read it upon its completion. Release coming November 1st!

Music from Global Pattern's excellent solarpunk compilations.