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It Could Happen Here

Abundance, Or How To Sell Tech Fascism To Liberals

It Could Happen Here

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Politics, Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mia talks about the new Abundance movement, its ideas and how it operates as a Trojan horse for its funders Peter Thiel and the Koch Brothers.

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0:36.6

Call zone Media.

0:40.6

Welcome to Akadap here, a podcast about a world on fire and how to put it out.

0:47.0

I'm your host, Mia Wong.

0:49.4

The world is fucked.

0:52.1

It's the one thing everyone agrees on. In the vacuum of a defeated Democratic

0:57.2

Party and a hideously unpopular fascist takeover that is nevertheless on the march,

1:03.6

ideologies vie for the mantle of resistance to the fascist purge. Surin Mamdani's victory in

1:10.0

New York represents a resurgent social democracy.

1:13.2

In the streets, everyone from liberals to communists to anarchists

1:16.5

are fighting against ICE and the National Guard occupations.

1:20.6

To get our bearings in the swirling vortex of ideology,

1:24.9

let us check in slightly further to the right,

1:29.3

but still firmly in the grounds of liberalism on a new movement called abundance. What is abundance? Brust into prominence

1:37.3

by a book in March 2025, simply called Abundance by liberal stalwart Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, who is

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