The Moneyless Society Podcast

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.

Preppin’ for Collapse, Hopin’ for Utopia with Poor Proles Almanac

#collapse is trending, it's in the air like fall--the fall of capitalism, the rising tides, the chaos of our made to break and illegal to repair society falling apart all at once. We all know it's coming, some of us daydream about it like one long weekend, others fear for their children's future. The question isn't whether it's going down, it's WHEN, and WHAT are you going to DO about it?

That's the topic of this week's episode with Andy from Poor Proles Almanac, a righteous eco-anarchist agro ecology prepper podcast. Grab a carrot and settle in--it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

SOLARPUNK SOLUTIONS #1 - Off Grid Internet

SOLARPUNK SOLUTIONS is a new series within moneyless society which focuses on, well, solutions! It's about bringing together nature and technology, politics and imagination, and exploring the possibilities of what we can do TODAY to build the change we want to see in the world. 

 

The first talk is with Andre, or Hydroponic Trash @hydroponictrash talking about totally DIY off grid wireless internet and what it means to be a solarpunk, creating solutions as the old world falls apart.

MAGNOVA: An App to Replace the Government?

We all see the effects of social media and the internet on society, it's revolutionized everything but our social system. In this episode we talk with the visionary Lavra Tamutus, creator of MAGNOVA, an ingenious new platform for problem solving and sharing, about using the technology that corporations are using to own the world and mine our every interaction for data to control information, manipulate elections and advertise to us with drone strike accuracy--to create a system of collective decision making, project planning, and resource sharing that truly makes government, politics, misinformation, and global issues like homelessness, poverty, resource scarcity and competition OBSOLETE.

Don't miss this mind blowing discussion of cybernetic direct democracy to create global cooperation!

Music by Cyber Surfer 3d and various solarpunk vibes by Global Pattern's compilations.

WTF is Money with Steve Grumbine

In this bombastic episode we go deep into MODERN MONETARY THEORY with Steve Grumbine, founder of Real Progressives and Host of Macro and Cheese, exploring how money is made up, how it's used and misused, what taxes are actually for, debunking the murderous lies of WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR IT and digging into two very close but very different theories on this crazy thing we call MONEY and what to do about it.

 

This episode is a great, tough conversation that got heated, was full of laughs and heartfelt connections, showing that we can agree to disagree and still be comrades in the battle against the B#LLSHIT open air prison of capitalism.