Radical Abundance: A Political Agenda for Cities

 In their new book, Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic future, Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell argue that capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we do. Through this system’s pursuit of profits, we have been put on a collision course with social and ecological limits that can no longer be ignored. We need an alternative. We need radical abundance: a world of human and non-human flourishing made possible by democratically planned production. But radical abundance can’t just be voted into existence through parliamentary means, it must be made by taking control of our collective reproduction in the here and now. We will explore the content of this book through a discussion with the authors. We will reflect on the potential of ‘radical abundance’ for the future politics of the city of Amsterdam.  

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