Real Abundance Requires Class Struggle

By Vivek Chibber · Jacobin

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A Jacobin Radio podcast episode featuring Vivek Chibber and Matt Huber discussing the political economy of abundance, state capacity, and infrastructure building. The conversation critiques Klein and Thompson's Abundance book while defending public-sector-led energy infrastructure projects, particularly nuclear power and the TVA model, against opposition from environmental NGOs like the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

The TVA was established in 1933 by Franklin Roosevelt as a huge public power entity that built massive hydroelectric facilities. They also created huge forestry programs, which meant conservation, so they were really about solving all sorts of ecological issues facing the South at the time.
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