The Moneyless Society Podcast

Utopia isn't some final destination where problems no longer exist -- it's a constantly evolving process of self-evaluation and social cooperation. Jacque Fresco understood that when he and Roxanne Meadows started The Venus Project, introducing so many of us to the idea of a resource-based economy, and the ability to engineer our way out of our crises.

Roxanne joins us on today's episode, along with her colleagues Nate and Theo, to...

As buildings collapse on top of them, these two young men from Gaza are desperate to tell their story to the world, so that we will recognize and end the brutality their families are experiencing. It is the VERY SAME brutality that sweeps across African cobalt mines, American cop cities, and throughout history wherever there was land to steal and profit to squeeze from the people living there.

Ramy is only 19, and was denied at the...

WHERE IS THE HUMANITY as we live-stream a genocidal war in Gaza against a captive, innocent people being wiped out by nuclear superpower of Israel, funded by the USA? The hope and humanity is in the people of Gaza themselves and in the response of people who care around the world doing their part to help. Moneyless Society is highlighting the real, heartbreaking, unimaginably horrific stories of regular people living through this n...

MUTUAL MFIN AID! The antidote to a world consumed by transactional, commodified, individualized, and nuked social relations is embarrassingly simple: SHARE! In this nourishing, hard-core solutions oriented episode we explore all things mutual aid with the GREAT Stephanie Rearick. We talk time banking, mutual credit, community building, Appalachian Community Meal project, and exactly WHAT IT TAKES to start your own mutual aid networ...

Join us for a riveting episode that delves into the heart of global crises, where we unravel the stark realities of consumption inequality and its profound implications. In a world where the top 1% consume as much as the bottom 66%, we dissect the intricate web of environmental challenges and economic disparities, challenging the very foundations of capitalism. With hosts Zachary Marlow and Arjang Jameh steering this thought-provok...

ADMIN REVEAL! The woman behind Moneyless Society, Amanda Smith, tells her story in this riveting experience of hardship turned into mutual aid. Get to know the tireless activist, meme queen supreme, single mother (and grandmother) behind our organization, the meme empire she built, and the IRL mutual aid network she is building in the heart of Appalachia.

Discover how Amanda's Appalachian Community Meal Project (ACM) is bringing t...

None of this is normal and we shouldn't get used to it! The horrifying crisis in Palestine is a collective trauma decades in the making that we are just now witnessing from the outside. The great Daniel Maté, co-author of The Myth of Normal and mental chiropractor joins us to unpack the terrible history and reality of what's going on, breaking the myth that it's too complicated to take a stand on, or the larger myth that ANY OF THI...

If it didn't feel DOOMED, it wouldn't be an ADVENTURE! Long awaited pod with Charles McBryde! We all grew up dreaming about saving the world from destruction from great evil...well, these are the stakes as we face down unfolding climate apocalypse, impending world war, and the collapse of life as we know it at the hands of a monstrous system that's taken over the world.

We talk with freelance humanitarian TikTok star and anarchist ...

Michael Dowd, the high priest of collapse, the prophet of (post) doom, and a good friend, passed away in his sleep last night. The world just lost one of its most vital human resources for navigating the unfolding & accelerating collapse that has really just begun. Michael was an amazing human being, the kindest doomer on earth, one of the most intelligent and knowledgeable people exploring the horrifying REALITY of ecological ...

WTF do BLOCKCHAIN and SOCIALISM have to do with each other? More than you might think! Filmed live at a radical gathering of extremist nerds at the Commons Hub in the Austrian Alps, Marlow and Joshua Davila of the Blockchain Socialist podcast and writer of "Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It" explore the postcapitalist side of crypto, web3, decentralized computing, the future of currency, and life w...

A simple question with a profound answer that cuts into the exploitation, propaganda, and militant resistance to any change to the status quo: WHY aren't there more black anticapitalists? This is the question that prompted our guest Lawrence of @blackleftis to become an activist and soldier on the front lines of the meme wars, and to find the others in radical spaces that are all too often dominated by white voices. This question d...

Is global poverty improving, or getting worse? In this episode we explore the true reality of the horror of deprivation and mass death from a lack of the basic necessities or generic drugs to cure medieval diseases-- from a lack of money. Capitalist apologists claim poverty is decreasing, while the line is set at a measly $2 a day-- increase it by even 2 more and the number of people in extreme poverty explodes. 18 million people d...

AI may not have taken over the world yet, but it's taken over the news and our feeds, as its tendrils work their way into every aspect of life as we know it, multiplying risk and reward and driving us into a new future none of us can imagine. This is the first part of an epically wild and expansive series with the AI Wizard Simon, using AI to turn our world inside out. We explore what LLMs really are, what IS intelligence, use chat...

MONEY has been the greatest weapon ever devised by humanity, the cause of more death than anything else. DEBT has been weaponized to conquer nations and bring peoples to their knees. Nobody understands this better than former ECONOMIC HITMAN John Perkins, who personally worked for the state and corporate establishment cajoling poor nations with resources coveted by western companies into accepting loans they could never repay, as a...

THE RADICAL LEFT is the topic of this episode with the great Tony of the excellent youtube channel 1Dime. We have a wide ranging conversation about the history and future of the radical left--is there even a left, were experiments like the Soviet Union and communist China really communist, and what's next, how do we create a modern revolutionary movement that goes further than a movement that is largely stuck in the past, into the ...

THAR SHE BLOWS! The best news swimming around the internet is the apparent orca whale uprising sinking human ships as an act of ORCANIZED resistance to the industrial system that's destroying life as we know it. We're joined by radical wildlife biologist and climate activist, scientist rebel, antifa supersoldier Allan Chornak to dive deep into a profound conversation about what we are doing to the oceans to provoke such peaceful cr...

STRIKE! As the capitalist system ramps up its attacks on working class people around the world, workers of the world are joining together to STRIKE BACK! We're joined by the great professor Richard Wolff and organizers from General Strike U.S. to talk about the state of organized labor, the strikes and protests raging across France, and the future of the labor movement as we sow the seeds of a general strike in the U.S.

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STRIKE! As the capitalist system ramps up its attacks on working class people around the world, workers of the world are joining together to STRIKE BACK! We're joined by the great professor Richard Wolff and organizers from General Strike US to talk about the state of organized labor, the strikes and protests raging across France, and the future of the labor movement as we sew the seeds of a general strike in the US. 

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Our season finale was recorded by our good friend and long-time volunteer, Nathan Jones of the Kindness Rebellion Podcast. Nathan asks us to respond to some of the common criticisms and misconceptions around a Moneyless Society. Join us as we work to shift our mindsets away from restrictive scarcity and trade/barter solutions towards accessible abundance and systemic reciprocity.

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