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


Shownotes

Heron, K., Milburn, K., Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Press.
<a href='https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/'>https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/</a>

Kai Heron at Lancaster University:
<a href='https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/kai-heron'>https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/kai-heron</a>

Keir Milburn’s contributions at Novara Media:
<a href='https://novaramedia.com/contributor/keir-milburn/'>https://novaramedia.com/contributor/keir-milburn/</a>

Bertie Russell at the Autonomous University of Barcelona:
<a href='https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/bertie-thomas-russell'>https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/bertie-thomas-russell</a>

Abundance (the collective):
<a href='https://www.in-abundance.org/'>https://www.in-abundance.org/</a>

on Marta Harnecker:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Harnecker'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Harnecker</a>

on Michael A. Lebowitz:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Lebowitz'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Lebowitz</a>

Lebowitz, M. A. (2013). Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism. Socialist Project.
<a href='https://socialistproject.ca/2013/09/b877/'>https://socialistproject.ca/2013/09/b877/</a>

on Yevgeni Preobrazhensky:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Preobrazhensky'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Preobrazhensky</a>

Preobrazhensky, Y. (1965). The New Economics. Oxford University Press.
<a href='https://files.libcom.org/files/%5BPreobrazhensky%2C_Evgeny_Alekseevich%5D_The_New_Econo(BookZZ.org).pdf'>https://files.libcom.org/files/%5bPreobrazhensky%2C_Evgeny_Alekseevich%5d_The_New_Econo(BookZZ.org).pdf</a>

Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.
<a href='https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal'>https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal</a>

on Public-Commons Partnerships:
<a href='https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-a-public-commons-parntership'>https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-a-public-commons-parntership</a>
<a href='https://www.in-abundance.org/reports/public-common-partnerships-building-new-circuits-of-collective-ownership'>https://www.in-abundance.org/reports/public-common-partnerships-building-new-circuits-of-collective-ownership</a>

for case studies on Public-Commons Partnerships, see:
<a href='https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies'>https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies</a>

on Public-Private Partnerships:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partnership'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partnership</a>

on council farms in the UK:
<a href='https://www.cpre.org.uk/explainer/county-farms-explainer/'>https://www.cpre.org.uk/explainer/county-farms-explainer/</a>

Common Wealth (the organization):
<a href='https://www.common-wealth.org/'>https://www.common-wealth.org/</a>

Common Wealth’s recent project on privatization and Public-Private Partnerships in the UK:
<a href='https://www.common-wealth.org/interactive/who-owns-britain/home'>https://www.common-wealth.org/interactive/who-owns-britain/home</a>

on Che Guevara:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara</a>

on Stuart Hall:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)</a>

on Hugo Chávez:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez</a>

Gilbert, C. (2023). Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project. Monthly Review Press.
<a href='https://monthlyreview.org/9781685900243/'>https://monthlyreview.org/9781685900243/</a>

on agroecology:
<a href='https://agroecology-coalition.org/what-is-agroecology/'>https://agroecology-coalition.org/what-is-agroecology/</a>

SCOP-TI:
<a href='https://www.scop-ti.info/'>https://www.scop-ti.info/</a>

the Berlin Housing Campaign:
<a href='https://dwenteignen.de/en'>https://dwenteignen.de/en</a>

on the Wards Corner Market:
<a href='https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies/wards-corner'>https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies/wards-corner</a>

Amarnath, S. et al. (2023): Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.
<a href='https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/'>https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/</a>

on the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in the US:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States</a>

on marronage communities and their role in slave rebellions:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons</a>

on the coal strikes in Appalachia in the late 19th and early 20th century:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars</a>

on the Black Panther Party:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party</a>

on SYRIZA and their development:
<a href='https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rethinking-populism/the-systemic-metamorphosis-of-greeces-once-radical-left-wing-syriza-party/'>https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rethinking-populism/the-systemic-metamorphosis-of-greeces-once-radical-left-wing-syriza-party/</a>

on Erik Olin Wright’s “Transition Troughs” concept, see chapter 9 and 10 of:
Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso.
<a href='https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias'>https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias</a>

the “Abundance” report on the social property of water in the UK:
<a href='https://www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyond-bailouts'>https://www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyond-bailouts</a>

on the 2023 strike in France where workers cut energy to certain sectors:
<a href='https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/03/30/robin-hood-electricians-and-oil-blockades-the-radical-tactics-of-frances-striking-energy-w'>https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/03/30/robin-hood-electricians-and-oil-blockades-the-radical-tactics-of-frances-striking-energy-w</a>

van Dyk, S. & Haubner, T. (2021). Community-Kapitalismus. Hamburger Edition.
<a href='https://www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-books/artikel-detail/community-kapitalismus/'>https://www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-books/artikel-detail/community-kapitalismus/</a>

van Dyk, S. (2018). Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism. Work, Employment and Society, 32(3), 528-545.
<a href='https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663'>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663</a>

on municipalism:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalism'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalism</a>
Bianchi, I. & Russell, B. (eds.) (2026). Radical Municipalism. The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services. Bristol University Press. (forthcoming)
<a href='https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/radical-municipalism'>https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/radical-municipalism</a>

on the Occupy Movement:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement</a>

on Climateflation:
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/26/tuesday-briefing-how-climateflation-is-pushing-food-prices-ever-higher-and-changing-how-we-eat'>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/26/tuesday-briefing-how-climateflation-is-pushing-food-prices-ever-higher-and-changing-how-we-eat</a>

on hernani burujabe (the tripartite economic planning system in the city of Hernani):
<a href='https://hernaniburujabe.eus/es/que-es/'>https://hernaniburujabe.eus/es/que-es/</a>

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.
<a href='https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.70030'>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.70030</a>

on the Commons (concept):
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons</a>

on Evergreening:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening</a>

Klein, E. & Thompson, D. (2025). Abundance. Avid Reader Press.
<a href='https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abundance/Ezra-Klein/9781668023488'>https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abundance/Ezra-Klein/9781668023488</a>

on Marx’s concept of the realm of necessity and freedom:
<a href='https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/capital/vol3-ch48.htm'>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/capital/vol3-ch48.htm</a>

on David Graeber:
<a href='https://davidgraeber.org/'>https://davidgraeber.org/</a>

Suits, B. (2005). The Grasshopper. Games, Life and Utopia. Broadview Press.
<a href='https://kevinjpatton.com/teaching/phil_3230/readings/Bernard%20Suits%20-%20The%20Grasshopper.pdf'>https://kevinjpatton.com/teaching/phil_3230/readings/Bernard%20Suits%20-%20The%20Grasshopper.pdf</a>

on the socialist ecomodernism and degrowth debate:
<a href='https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-01-23/ecomodernism-on-its-own-terms/'>https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-01-23/ecomodernism-on-its-own-terms/</a>


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Democratic planning – an information website
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Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
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Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: <a href='mailto:amber.lanfranchi@bristol.ac.uk'>amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk</a>]
<a href='https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction'>https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction</a>

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
<a href='https://www.indep.network/'>https://www.indep.network/</a>

Democratic Planning Research Platform:
<a href='https://www.planningresearch.net/'>https://www.planningresearch.net/</a>
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