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We Need Radical Abundance

If we want abundance we have to ask, an abundance of what exactly, and produced under what economic logic?

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Bhaskar Sunkara
Jan 22, 2026
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by Keir Milburn

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Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, speaks during a press conference in support of the city-wide nurses strike on January 12, 2026. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

Traditionally, critiques of bureaucracy take the perspective of the little man caught in the obtuse machinations of faceless corporations or an unyielding state. Kafka’…

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