Kai Heron

How to transition from capitalism’s scarcity to radical abundance - LSE Review of Books Kai Heron, Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell's Radical Abundance calls for a transition from capitalism to a “radical abundance” that benefits people & the planet.

How can we protect democracy from capital, not the other way around?

Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social @abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social reviewed by Ivan Radanović @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Fisherfolk Resisting Imperialism: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune (Part IV) - Venezuelanalysis The US blockade brought much suffering to Lake Maracaibo communities, but people responded and resisted by deepening their bonds of solidarity and cooperation.

"The US wants our riches—our oil and minerals—but we defend our sovereignty"

- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...

Thanks, Carlos! Great to hear you're enjoying it.

This book by @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social ky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social is really interesting! Great read, with novel ideas

Theories of Political Ecology: Monopoly Capital Against People and the Planet - Max Ajl, 2023 This article engages with and critiques dominant theories of political ecology. It takes the theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) as the framework of c...

I don't know that many people have written about this? Max Ajl's important piece is the only one that comes to mind: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 5/5

But unfortunately these perspectives are welcomed and rewarded in the Western academy far more than anti-imperialism, self-determination, and popular development. 4/5

My hope is that the almost complete shift to research organised by the notions of post-development, the pluriverse, extractivism, and narrow treatments of decoloniality will be a temporary 'turn' in the field. 3/5

And this when an anti-imperialist, non-Eurocentric, Marxism rooted in Third World eco-social struggles and dynamics is gaining popularity among young scholars. 2/5

Marxism is foundational to the discipline of political ecology, and yet in the past few years there’s been a notable decline of Marxist perspectives in the discipline’s leading conferences and forthcoming handbooks. 1/5

This is probably my favourite comment from a review of Radical Abundance so far: “Struck a strange tone (not in a bad way) between policy/‘wonk’-ness while also engaging most seriously with communisation theory and their interpretation of secular stagnation of all things.”

Thanks, Jonathan! I hope you enjoy.

Article w/ Rory Rowan & Pat Brodie now online in the excellent SI of the Journal of Labor and Society edited by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @alejopedregal.bsky.social & Nemanja Lukić.

'Militarising FDI: Geopolitical Ecology, Dependency, and Ireland’s Twin Transition.'

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Thanks, Lukas! I'd love to know more about you're working on.

A huge thank you to all of our contributors and to the journal's editor-in-chief, Immanuel Ness, for his encouragement and support throughout.

9: @climatevanguard.bsky.social's commentary then closes out the special issue with a reflection on the strategies and tactics needed to tear down ecomodernist imperialism from within the imperial core itself. brill.com/view/journal...

8: Martín Lallana’s essay critically analyses the ecomodernist approach to just transitions widely adopted by trade unions in the imperial core before showcasing an eco-socialist alternative carved out by Basque labour organizations. brill.com/view/journal...

7: @pbresnihan.bsky.social, Patrick Brodie and Rory Rowan's timely piece argues that southern Ireland's "twin transition" of digitalization and decarbonization is predicated on the militarization of Irish society and its deeper integration into the imperialist order. brill.com/view/journal...

6: Through a richly ethnographic analysis of grassroots mobilization in Gabes, Dhouha Djerbi's essay shows how European-led “win-win” green hydrogen partnerships replicate long-standing imperial hierarchies and how local resistance contests this. brill.com/view/journal...

5: @davidtemin.bsky.social's piece draws on W.E.B Du Bois show illustrate how imperialism and ecomodernism reproduce themselves through a gendered and racialised 'imperial bargain' with some sectors of the imperial core's working class. brill.com/view/journal...

4: Max Ajl's challenges the perspectives of post-development and degrowth. For Ajl, like the imperial systems these theories critique, they wrongly dismiss the imperative of sovereign industrialization and national liberation in the periphery. Open access: brill.com/view/journal...

3: Mariko Lin Frame's contribution argues that the struggle against ecological imperialism is also a struggle over the survival of non-capitalist worlds and the epistemic plurality upon which any just ecological transition must rest. brill.com/view/journal...

2: @jasonhickel.bsky.social's commentary dismantles that the idea that ecomodernist fixes can bring about a sustainable future. Capitalism, he shows, is rooted in an imperial arrangement that only a global eco-socialist transition can overcome. Open access: brill.com/view/journal...

1: An introduction by @alejopedregal.bsky.social, Nemanja Lukić and I opens the issue. Our article rejects both ecomodernism and anti-modernism, arguing instead for an anti-imperialist politics of popular development. Open access: brill.com/view/journal...

Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵

US imperialism no longer operates within the post-WWII 'rules based order' it created with its (false) appeals to international rights, freedom, and win-win scenarios. It works through zero-sum calculations, violence, and misinformation. Palestine and Venezuela are front lines.

Thanks for sharing, Michael!

MPs laugh after minister rejects meeting Palestine Action hunger strikers' families MPs laughed as a minister rejected a request to meet with the families of imprisoned Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers.

This government is satisfied that its "robust...procedures are being enacted" as Palestine Action hunger strikers waver on the brink of death because of its inaction. I can't put into words how contemptible this Labour government is.
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‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal

US companies are vying for contracts to rebuild Gaza. This is what a lot of people don't grasp about war and climate change. Their destructive effects always open new avenues of capital accumulation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Here's a link to the article itself. I'll have more to say about the rest of the special issue shortly! brill.com/view/journal... 13/

The uneven geography of capitalism is both the result of its inherent contradictions and the terrain of its possible negation." We illustrate this with past and present examples including Burkina Faso, Venezuela, Cuba, and China. 12/