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A blueprint for escaping capitalism and creating a world of true abundance
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: From Bullshit Abundance to Radical Abundance
Part I
2. The Necessity of Transition
3. Instituting Popular Protagonism
4. Denial and Derisking
Part II
5. Public-Common Partnerships
6. Urban Development
7. Pharmaceuticals
8. Food Systems
9. Conclusion: Futures
Notes
Bibliography
About the author
Kai Heron is a political organiser, trade unionist, and Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. He is the co-editor of the De Gruyter Degrowth Handbook (2024) and has published widely on the politics of green transitions, political theory, and political economy in academic journals and in popular outlets including New Statesman, Sidecar, Jacobin, e-flux, Rupture, and Spectre. He is a co-director of the action-research organisation Abundance.
Keir Milburn is a writer, researcher, and activist. He has a background as an academic in political economy and organisational theory. He has written over a hundred articles and book chapters in venues ranging from academic journals, such as Urban Studies, to media commentary in outlets such as The Guardian, The Independent, and The Nation. His book Generation Left provoked debate across several countries on generational political divides driven, in part, by generational imbalances in asset ownership. He is co-director of the action-research organisation Abundance.
Bertie Russell is a Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is an activist-researcher with a focus on radical municipalism, urban commons, economic democracy, public-common partnerships and co-production. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services (2026), and co-director of the action-research organisation Abundance.
