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S03E48 - Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance

S03E48 - Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance

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Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell discuss Radical Abundance, transition and public-commons partnerships.




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Heron, K., Milburn, K., Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Press.


https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/




Kai Heron at Lancaster University:


https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/kai-heron




Keir Milburn’s contributions at Novara Media:


https://novaramedia.com/contributor/keir-milburn/




Bertie Russell at the Autonomous University of Barcelona:


https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/bertie-thomas-russell




Abundance (the collective):


https://www.in-abundance.org/




on Marta Harnecker:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Harnecker




on Michael A. Lebowitz:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Lebowitz




Lebowitz, M. A. (2013). Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism. Socialist Project.


https://socialistproject.ca/2013/09/b877/




on Yevgeni Preobrazhensky:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Preobrazhensky




Preobrazhensky, Y. (1965). The New Economics. Oxford University Press.


https://files.libcom.org/files/%5bPreobrazhensky%2C_Evgeny_Alekseevich%5d_The_New_Econo(BookZZ.org).pdf




Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.


https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal




on Public-Commons Partnerships:


https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-a-public-commons-parntership


https://www.in-abundance.org/reports/public-common-partnerships-building-new-circuits-of-collective-ownership




for case studies on Public-Commons Partnerships, see:


https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies




on Public-Private Partnerships:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partnership




on council farms in the UK:


https://www.cpre.org.uk/explainer/county-farms-explainer/




Common Wealth (the organization):


https://www.common-wealth.org/




Common Wealth’s recent project on privatization and Public-Private Partnerships in the UK:


https://www.common-wealth.org/interactive/who-owns-britain/home




on Che Guevara:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara




on Stuart Hall:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)




on Hugo Chávez:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez




Gilbert, C. (2023). Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project. Monthly Review Press.


https://monthlyreview.org/9781685900243/




on agroecology:


https://agroecology-coalition.org/what-is-agroecology/




SCOP-TI:


https://www.scop-ti.info/




the Berlin Housing Campaign:


https://dwenteignen.de/en




on the Wards Corner Market:


https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies/wards-corner




Amarnath, S. et al. (2023): Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.


https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/




on the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in the US:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States




on marronage communities and their role in slave rebellions:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons




on the coal strikes in Appalachia in the late 19th and early 20th century:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars




on the Black Panther Party:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party




on SYRIZA and their development:


https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rethinking-populism/the-systemic-metamorphosis-of-greeces-once-radical-left-wing-syriza-party/




on Erik Olin Wright’s “Transition Troughs” concept, see chapter 9 and 10 of:


Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso.


https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias




the “Abundance” report on the social property of water in the UK:


https://www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyond-bailouts




on the 2023 strike in France where workers cut energy to certain sectors:


https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/03/30/robin-hood-electricians-and-oil-blockades-the-radical-tactics-of-frances-striking-energy-w




van Dyk, S. & Haubner, T. (2021). Community-Kapitalismus. Hamburger Edition.


https://www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-books/artikel-detail/community-kapitalismus/




van Dyk, S. (2018). Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism. Work, Employment and Society, 32(3), 528-545.


https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663




on municipalism:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalism


Bianchi, I. & Russell, B. (eds.) (2026). Radical Municipalism. The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services. Bristol University Press. (forthcoming)


https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/radical-municipalism




on the Occupy Movement:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement




on Climateflation:


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/26/tuesday-briefing-how-climateflation-is-pushing-food-prices-ever-higher-and-changing-how-we-eat




on hernani burujabe (the tripartite economic planning system in the city of Hernani):


https://hernaniburujabe.eus/es/que-es/




Egia-Olaizola, A., Villalba-Eguiluz, U. and Gainza, X. (2025), Beyond the New Municipalism. Towards Post-Capitalist Territorial Sovereignty in the Case of Hernani Burujabe. Antipode, 57: 1448-1469.


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.70030




on the Commons (concept):


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons




on Evergreening:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening




Klein, E. & Thompson, D. (2025). Abundance. Avid Reader Press.


https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abundance/Ezra-Klein/9781668023488




on Marx’s concept of the realm of necessity and freedom:


https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/wor

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S03E48 - Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance

S03E48 - Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance

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