A Picture Book Journey
Decolonizing Money
The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollar – Book Launch
13. June 2026
18.00-22.00
18.00-22.00
Save the Date
Eine Welt ohne den US-Dollar – Buchpremiere
all ages welcome
in English
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. Today, the petrodollar system prevents any meaningful and just energy transition, reinforcing the world economy’s dependency to fossil fuels and accelerating climate change through outright war and infinite economic growth. What would it mean to abolish the US dollar? What does a world beyond the US dollar look like?
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.
Book launch with author Julio Linares. Information about the other event participants will follow shortly.
