Decolonizing Money

A democratic vision of money that goes beyond the free market and the state

List of contents

Introduction: From Promises to Actions - why we need an anarcho-communist theory of money

Part I: On the Separation Between Money and the State

1. Debt, slavery and the political imagination

2. Patriarchy as a System of Broken Promises

3. Territories of Defense

4. Towards the Decommodification of Life

Part II: Fear of an anarchist planet

5. The institutionalization of freedom

6. Debt abolition or ecological imperialism

7. A liberatory income: On the abolition of wage slavery

8. Democratic Monetary Theory (D.M.T)

About the author

Julio César Linares is a community organizer and economic anthropologist born in the territories known today as Guatemala. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics where he studied and worked on projects with the late David Graeber. He serves as Public Outreach for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). He lives in Berlin, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Julio Linares
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.11.2025
• EAN: 9780745349831
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4983-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Vagabonds
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries