Engaging Erik Olin Wright

Name: Engaging Erik Olin Wright
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Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias

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Erik Olin Wright was one of the most brilliant and world-renowned social scientists of our era. He left us in 2019 with an unfinished project – the articulation of class and utopia. Wright’s sociological Marxism embarked from an original class analysis, with its trademark contradictory class... Read More

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Engaging Erik Olin Wright

A LIFEWORK FINDING THE SEEDS OF EMANCIPATION IN EXISTING INSTITUTIONS

The application of emancipatory social science.

Description

In response to the collapse of communism and the rise of neoliberalism, Wright turned to the premise of class analysis, which is the possibility of socialism. Forsaking Marxism’s allergy to utopian thinking, Wright searched the planet for institutions that might sow the seeds of socialism – such as cooperatives, participatory budgeting, and basic income grants – institutions that might dissolve racial, gender, and class inequalities by eroding capitalism.

His last book, How to be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century, published posthumously in over a dozen languages, has become a manifesto for a new world, bringing together and inspiring social movement activists.

The essays in this volume pay tribute to his generative theory, his crystalline teaching, and his personal warmth. The authors – all close colleagues or former students – wrestle with the relationship between his two expanding research programs, class analysis and real utopias. They burn the candle from either end, all galvanized by Wright’s genius and vision to reinvent Marxism.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804294727

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 June 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Edition: Paperback original

Contributors:

Edited by Michael Burawoy
Contributions by Harry Brighouse
Contributions by Michael Burawoy
Edited by Gay Seidman
Contributions by Gay Seidman
Contributions by Greta R. Krippner
Contributions by Kwang-Yeong Shin
Contributions by João Alexandre Peschanski
Contributions by Marta Soler-Gallart

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 338g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Gay Seidman teaches sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where for many years, her office was next to Erik Wright's. Her books include Manufacturing Militance and Beyond the Boycott.

Michael Burawoy teaches sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of several books including The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes under Capitalism and Socialism and most recently Public Sociology: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia. He was a close friend and literary executor of Erik Wright.