2026-05-10 –, Masaryk Stage
In this talk, I will speak about why we must abolish the US dollar, tactics to do it, and alternatives. See forthcoming book: “Decolonizing Money
To change the world, we need a money revolution. Yet the debate over money has been dominated by two perspectives: those free-market capitalists who want money to rule everything, and those who want the state to harness money’s power. Decolonizing Money presents an anarchist theory of money which sets out strategies for collective liberation beyond state and capital.
Drawing on anarchist, abolitionist and anti-colonial feminist traditions, Julio Linares makes the heretical argument for a grassroots democratic movement to abolish the imperialist US dollar as a necessary step towards the cancellation of debt and establishing a worldwide basic income. Linares shows that money, beyond a store of value and a medium of exchange, is a series of promises a society makes to itself – and he challenges us to make them otherwise.
This innovative book takes up lessons from global history and social movements in order to unleash the political imagination. It shows us how the creation, use and most importantly the destruction of money are forms of power that need to be reclaimed through direct action, as part of a radical democratic project for autonomy and self-determination.
Co-President of Circles Coop eG. in Berlin, and Social Outreach officer for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Originally from Guatemala, Julio is a founding member of the Basic Income Network in Taiwan. MSc. Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics, London, UK. MA Applied Economics and Social Development, National Cheng Chi Univerisity, Taipei, Taiwan. Co-founder of t