Engaging Erik Olin Wright (eBook, ePUB)

Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias
Redaktion: Burawoy, Michael; Seidman, Gay

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When the renowned social scientist Erik Olin Wright passed away in 2019 at the height of his intellectual powers, he left behind an unfinished project intended to forge a connection between class analysis and real utopias. In taking up this project, the essays in this volume pay tribute to his generative theory, crystalline thinking, inspirational teaching, and personal generosity.

- "Friends of the late Erik Olin Wright celebrate his life and work with essays about his lifelong preoccupations with analytical Marxism and the transformation of capitalist societies. The result is a beautiful book that glows with intelligence, optimism, and love." FRANCES FOX PIVEN
- "Erik Wright succumbed to cancer while he was advancing a decades-long project of envisioning real utopias-designs for a workable socialism. The essays in this superb volume recount this monumental undertaking and also advance it in significant ways." VIVEK CHIBBER
- "Erik Olin Wright devoted his brilliant mind to the challenging task of rethinking and reimagining socialism after the fall of the Soviet Union and China's turn towards full-blown capitalism. In this tribute to his work, progressive intellectuals and activists bring forward and deepen Wright's trail-blazing Real Utopias Project amidst the current deep crisis of capitalism." WALDEN BELLO
- "These rich and compelling essays testify to the power and actuality of Erik Olin Wright's thought, as well as to his dialogism, mentorship, and influence. A terrific read and a fitting tribute to a brilliant scholar and beloved comrade." NANCY FRASER

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804297261
• Artikelnr.: 70622247

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Advancing Wright’s Unfinished Project
Michael Burawoy and Gay Seidman
Part I
THE LIFE AND WORK OF ERIK WRIGHT
A Tale of Two Marxisms
Michael Burawoy
Class, Gender and Utopian Community
Gay Seidman
Love and Marxism
Greta R. Krippner
Wright’s Emancipatory Theory and Practice
Kwang-Yeong Shin
Part II
FROM REAL UTOPIAS TO CLASS ANALYSIS
If You’re a Socialist You Need the Real Utopias Project, whether You Like
It or Not
Harry Brighouse
Class Counts for Real Utopias: The Implementation of Free Mass Transit in
Seven Brazilian Cities
João Alexandre Peschanski
The Cooperative Market Economy: The Promise and Challenge of Mondragon
Marta Soler-Gallart
Who Will Help Decommodify Housing? Race, Property, Class, and the Struggle
for Social Housing in the United States
H. Jacob Carlson and Gianpaolo Baiocchi
The Emancipation Network: Discovering Anticapitalist Institutions within
Brazilian Capitalism
Ruy Braga
Part III
FROM CLASS ANALYSIS TO REAL UTOPIAS
The Politics of Contradictory Class Locations: A View from India
Rina Agarwala
The Class Basis of Anticapitalism: Labor Politics in Contemporary Argentina
Rodolfo Elbert
From Class Analysis to Real Utopias and Back Again: Erik Olin Wright in
Conversation with Left Populism
Peter Ramand
Fifteen Dollars and a Revolution: Building Anticapitalist Workers’
Movements
Stephanie Luce