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

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.


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/works/subject/hist-mat/capital/vol3-ch48.htm


on David Graeber:


https://davidgraeber.org/


Suits, B. (2005). The Grasshopper. Games, Life and Utopia.
Broadview Press.


https://kevinjpatton.com/teaching/phil_3230/readings/Bernard%20Suits%20-%20The%20Grasshopper.pdf


on the socialist ecomodernism and degrowth debate:


https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-01-23/ecomodernism-on-its-own-terms/


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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these
resources might be of help:


Democratic planning – an information website


https://www.democratic-planning.com/


Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic
Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue
1.


https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1


Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction -
Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol
University Press. [for a review copy, please contact:
amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]


https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction


International Network for Democratic Economic Planning


https://www.indep.network/


Democratic Planning Research Platform:


https://www.planningresearch.net/


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Episode Keywords


#KaiHeron, #KeirMilburn, #BertieRussell, #JanGroos, #Interview,
#FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational,
#futurehistoriesinternational, #Transition,
#SocioecologicalTransition #DemocraticPlanning,
#DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Capitalism #BerlinHousingCampaign,
#DWE, #Economics, #Socialism, #Socialisation, #Commons,
#PublicCommonsPartnerships, #RadicalAbundance, #Abundance,
#Municipalism, #Agroecology, #Derisking, #Investment, #Degrowth,
#SocialistEcomodernism, #Ecomodernism