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Our era is so crisis-ridden that all politics is now a politics of transition. In this context, how can we diminish and then overcome the power of capital, and build an economy based on a logic of communal, social control?
The book, Radical Abundance, sets out what this transition looks like and lays out a strategy for achieving it. Drawing from experiences across the world, including Venezuela, Berlin and the Basque Country, we argue that transition always has two core features - contesting reproduction and building institutions of popular power.
This session asks what this could look like in Britain, and proposes the first steps for cohering a movement tendency to bring it about.
Kai Heron is Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University and a Co-Director of Abundance. He is a co-author of Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.
Keir Milburn is co-director of the think tank Abundance, author of Generation Left, a member of the Red Plenty Games collective, and co-host of the #ACFM podcast on Novara Media.
Iker Eizagirre Zufiaurre is part of the Hiritik At cooperative (Irún) and member of the transformative economy network Olatukoop. Committed to expanding processes of ‘territorial sovereignty’ in the Basque Country, he provides technical support to the participatory economic planning initiative, Hernani Burujabe (Sovereign Hernani).
Dr Joanna Kusiak is a sociologist and a scholar-activist working with social movements. She is an Assistant Professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw and a Research Fellow at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. Her book “Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future” has won the 2023 Nine Dots Prize for thinking aout of the box about humanity’s biggest challenges.
Catalina Ortiz is an Associate Professor of The Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London and the Chair of the Wards Corner Community Benefit Society, Tottenham.
