Radical Abundance
How to Win a Green Democratic Future
$32.02
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2025
Summary
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 truly do. This hollow pursuit, achieved at the expense of both people and the planet, has forced us to confront ecological limits we can no longer ignore.
Radical abundance is the antithesis of bullshit abundance. It is producing more of what we need and less of what we don’t; more free time, more biodiversity, more services owned by those who use them. Understa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745351353 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745351352 |
| Author: | Kai Heron, Keir Milburn, Bertie Russell |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
‘Degrowth or ecomodernism? This book offers a compelling alternative. More than a utopian ideal, radical abundance is the guiding principle of a socialist revolution already in action’
– Kohei Saito, author of Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth‘The crises we face—mass deprivation and ecological breakdown—cannot be resolved within capitalism. We need a pathway out. Radical Abundance delivers exactly that. If you’re looking for practical steps to a post-capitalist future, don’t miss this book’
– Jason Hickel, author of Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World‘Radical Abundance resets the terms of left debate. With its concrete, compelling, and creative embrace of class struggle as a politics of transition, it is indispensable to anyone committed to building popular power on a rapidly heating planet’
– Jodi Dean, author of Capital’s Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle‘A rigorously argued and radically hopeful book, which exposes the gross inefficiency of modern capitalism and shows precisely how we can begin to build societies that guarantee a good life for all’
– Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism: How to Survive in an Age of Corporate GreedKai Heron
Kai Heron is a political organiser, trade unionist, and Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University’s Environment Centre. 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 The New Statesman, Sidecar, Jacobin Magazine, the Verso blog, e-flux, Rupture Magazine, and Spectre Journal.
Keir Milburn is a writer, researcher, and activist. He has a background as an academic in political economy and organisational theory. His book Generation Left provoked debate across several countries on generational political divides driven, in part, by generational imbalances in asset ownership. He is an internationally recognised expert on economic democracy, the commons and Public-Common Partnerships, and is co-director of the think tank Abundance.
Bertie Russell is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is an activist-researcher with a doctorate in critical geography from the University of Leeds. He specialises in urban commons, economic democracy, co-production and radical municipalism. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services.
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