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by Frank DiStefano
“The Abundance movement has diagnosed important problems, and it offers wise prescriptions. But countless reform movements have come and gone that were popular among good-government types, professionals, and intellectuals—Locofocos, Barnburners, Conscience Whigs, Greenbackers, Liberal Republicans, Half-Breeds, Mugwumps, and more. They all failed to leave a legacy of lasting change because they sought to answer the wrong question. If we want the Abundance movement to succeed, the question we must ask isn’t whether Abundance ideas are good. It is whether they’re designed to solve the national crisis of this moment.” (07/22/25)
https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/abundance-is-asking-the-wrong-question