The Moneyless Society Podcast
In this diverse and innovative space, we facilitate a highly collaborative, open-minded conversation diving into the issues our society faces today, while being sure to bring corresponding resolution to the forefront . We’re here to address the problems whilst collaborating on visionary solutions, as our increasingly interdependent yet fractured global society struggles through intersecting crises in these unparalleled times of change. The monetary system is at the heart of our society. It touches everything in our lives, it dictates who lives and dies. We believe a bright future for humanity is one without currency. Society is collapsing before our eyes, and there has never been a more vital or exciting opportunity to both come together for the sake of forestalling the end of human life as we know it, while also recreating life on earth as we know it.
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We've all felt the squeeze of technofascism scraping our data, suppressing our voices, and forcing our eyes onto their messaging like we're living in A Clockwork Orange. Well, the Media & Messaging Circle of Moneyless Society is plotting some ways out. As the voice and the first point of contact with our organization M&M seeks to inform and connect with our online community -- and now, encourage them to start taking more of...
If you're feeling hopeless about the U.S. election, women's rights, Palestine, climate change, and everything else, and don't know where to start or what to do -- this episode is for you. Meet a few members of our Direct Action Circle, who live and breathe communal care, and are teaching and learning the skills needed to prevent/survive collapse.
Contrary to popular belief, those skills aren't just foraging for food and bandaging w...
Be sure to check out the previously uploaded Part 1!
EVOLUTION is the death of the old species and the messy, experimental birth of something new...and so we present VENUS EVOLUTIONS, the next phase of the greatest vision for the transformation of human society yet created. On this podcast Marlow and Arjang from @WorldBeyondCapitalism are joined by Roxanne Meadows and Nathaniel Dinwiddie of TVP and the great Simon Michaux to disc...
Cross-post from our brilliant partner channel World Beyond Capitalism, hosted by Arjang Jameh! Be sure to visit his channel to learn more about what a different world could look like and how we could get there, together: www.youtube.com/@WorldBeyondCapitalism
EVOLUTION is the death of the old species and the messy, experimental birth of something new...and so we present VENUS EVOLUTIONS, the next phase of the greatest vision for th...
Moneyless Society is more than just a podcast -- it is a community of people building a blueprint for transitioning away from capitalist economics. And it's time to start introducing you all to these plans and ideas, so that they can propagate and grow.
On this episode we'll introduce you to the coordinators of our Technomancy Circle, which envisions technology as practical magic, and the doorway to organizing society in more effic...
Moneyless Society is more than just a podcast -- it is a community of people building a blueprint for transitioning away from capitalist economics. And it's time to start introducing you all to these plans and ideas, so that they can propagate and grow. On this episode we'll introduce you to our organizing structure, sociocracy, and some of the people from our General Circle, which ensures that everyone helping us do the work is he...
As Moneyless Society grows we want to introduce you to more of our members and the ways we're working to build alternative systems in our communities. And with the upcoming U.S. general election, this insight from our dedicated volunteer, Mia Jacobson, couldn't be more timely.
As a longshoreman and member of a historic union herself, Mia understands how important it is for the boots on the ground to have a say in organizational d...
"Dark Optimism is, in part, a perspective which is not afraid of seeking the truth — even when that truth is unpalatable or feels overwhelming. By exploring the unknown we can see it for what it is, rather than what we might fear it to be. Where there is darkness present we face it with an indomitable belief in the potential of life and humankind."
Those words are from the website of our friend Shaun Chamberlin, a researcher, write...
This month, a group of core Moneyless Society volunteers met up in the scenic mountains of Kentucky to get a firsthand taste of self-sufficient living, discuss the future of the organization, and just generally revel in the company of comrades who have only been able to collaborate digitally for the past few years. During that time, we also recorded a podcast episode meant to introduce the world to a few of the hands helping build ...
Science fiction is an effective way to put our current reality into context, and helps us imagine what our future might look like. For authors like Cory Doctorow, that fact is extremely useful in getting people to imagine what could be possible in a changed world -- and understand that changing the world IS POSSIBLE.
On today's episode, we dive into all the ways that we give power to authoritarian social systems when we buy into th...
What if there was a way to acquire the things you need in life without having to grovel and scrape for money every day? What if we could instead provide and be provided for by one another -- keeping track of what we've contributed, and what we plan to contribute, without all the fake numbers and resource hoarding?
That's precisely the focus of today's episode. Our guests are a panel of radical thinkers who have each in their own wa...
“We know more about black holes now, than we know about interest rates.” That’s Ty Keynes, explaining just how incomprehensible our global financial system actually is. And as a devout practitioner of Systems Dynamics, he has more than put in the legwork to try making sense of the mess. Imagine that you were able to create a model of what will happen in our world, based on the cycles that it tends to follow – that’s more or less wh...
"There are problems of extreme urgency that will be solved in the near future, or we're finished."
If you're an activist, linguist, or political analyst, then Noam Chomsky needs no introduction. But for anyone unfamiliar, Chomsky has shaped numerous generations of critical minds, and blazed the trail for organizations like ours attempting to change society at a systemic level.
We're thrilled to have him on our show, and to ask what...
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...
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