In light of developments in fusionism between left-wing candidates and abundance policy, particularly in the case of Zohran Mamdani, Zachary Jones interviews Victoria Ren on a Left-Abundance coalition. Victoria Ren is the co-founder and executive director of Students for Abundance, a national campus network that launched in September 2025 with chapters across ten states. This conversation took place on February 18, 2026, and has been edited for length and clarity. Recently, they hosted Camp Abundance, training students to advocate and organize for pro-growth policy change.
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Abundance was always leftist or at least left-compatible because the book is almost entirely about deregulation *in service of state capacity.* There’s a lot of overlap between Abundance fans and free market YIMBY types but the majority of the book is about cutting red tape for public sector projects, not private sector
Abundance-left fusionism: radical socialists governing moderately to acquire political capital they spend uplifting other radicals that have explicitly anti-development policy agendas
Abundance is already the fusion of progressive policy goals with the right-wing belief that doing things is possible and occasionally even good.