“Abundance” Against Organized Labor

A significant portion of the abundance movement views unions as a barrier that needs to be overcome in the name of efficiency.

Abundance for the 99 Percent

Abundance is the precondition of socialism, but socialism is also the precondition of abundance.

To Get Abundance, We Need to Discipline Capital

Concerned to increase the supply of housing and improve infrastructure, some on the Left have come to embrace the “abundance agenda.” But what capital needs is discipline, not deregulation.

What the “Abundance Agenda” Leaves Out

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book Abundance has plenty of merits, writes Matt Bruenig, but its emphasis on growth and innovation must be married to other egalitarian concerns.

Atomic Abundance and Its Enemies

Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can oversee is more important than building clean energy.

The “Magabundance” Agenda Is Creating Strange Bedfellows

Supply-side progressivism is forging unexpected alliances between populist Democrats, business-friendly centrists, and MAGA Republicans around militarized growth. The result is a post-neoliberal politics that accommodates authoritarian populism.

Capital’s Hunger in Abundance

As long as food is produced for profit and not need, people will go hungry.

On the Politics of Abundance

Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many

The New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani is focused on lowering the cost of living. It can serve as a blueprint for progressives seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for working peoples’ everyday lives.

Eric Adams’s “Working People’s Agenda” Is Just an Austerity Budget for New York City

Eric Adams loves to style himself as a mayor for the working class. But with his new budget’s long list of cuts to education and health programs that millions depend on, he’s putting forward an austerity agenda that only a plutocrat could love.

Chile’s Socialist Resurgence Is a Century in the Making

Gabriel Boric’s presidential victory and a new constitution are the crowning achievements of Chile’s broad socialist movement. Now comes the hard part: fulfilling a vision of working-class prosperity that stretches back to Salvador Allende and beyond.

Democrats Can Avoid Trump’s Culture-War Traps

Donald Trump is skilled at inflaming culture-war conflicts to distract from the GOP’s shameless class war on behalf of the rich. For Democrats to counter Trump effectively, they need to attack the billionaire class.

Four Futures

One thing we can be certain of is that capitalism will end.

Socialists Really Do Have to Talk About Bananas

It’s easy to mock the “banana discourse” that’s materialized on left-wing Twitter in the last week. But there are important issues here about how production and consumption would work under a feasible and desirable form of socialism.

How Social Reactionaries Exploit Economic Nostalgia

Conservatives think we need to resurrect traditional hierarchies to reverse social decline. But what Americans miss about mid-century America isn’t the chauvinistic cultural values — it’s the economic equality created by strong unions and worker power.

The Change Is Too Damn Fast

Working for the Weekend

Putting full employment at the center of a new left-wing strategy.

A Confederacy of Kidnappers

12 Years a Slave rightly grounds slavery in economic exploitation, but reflects our era's painful uncertainty about how that exploitation can be opposed.

How to Change Everything

Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is a vital book whose limitations should spark discussion about where we go from here.

Red Environmentalism

A low-carbon socialist future is possible.