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Engaging Erik Olin Wright
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Author : Michael Burawoy
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2024-06-04
Engaging Erik Olin Wright written by Michael Burawoy and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-04 with Social Science categories.
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
Envisioning Real Utopias
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Author : Erik Olin Wright
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2010-06-14
Envisioning Real Utopias written by Erik Olin Wright and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-14 with Political Science categories.
A leading sociologist proposes a new framework for a socialist alternative.
Engaging Erik Olin Wright
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Author : Michael Burawoy
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2024-06-04
Engaging Erik Olin Wright written by Michael Burawoy and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-04 with Social Science categories.
A collection of essays exploring emancipatory social science, inspired by the work of pioneering sociologist Erik Olin Wright 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 trade-mark contradictory class locations, that empirically mapped class structures across the globe. In response to the collapse of communism and the rise of neoliberalism, Wright turned to the premise of class analysis, that 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, 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.
Approaches To Class Analysis
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Author : Erik Olin Wright
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-07-01
Approaches To Class Analysis written by Erik Olin Wright and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Few themes have been as central to sociology as 'class' and yet class remains a perpetually contested idea. Sociologists disagree not only on how best to define the concept of class but on its general role in social theory and indeed on its continued relevance to the sociological analysis of contemporary society. Some people believe that classes have largely dissolved in contemporary societies; others believe class remains one of the fundamental forms of social inequality and social power. Some see class as a narrow economic phenomenon whilst others adopt an expansive conception that includes cultural dimensions as well as economic conditions. This 2005 book explores the theoretical foundations of six major perspectives of class with each chapter written by an expert in the field. It concludes with a conceptual map of these alternative approaches by posing the question: 'If class is the answer, what is the question?'
Class Counts
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Author : Erik Olin Wright
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997
Class Counts written by Erik Olin Wright and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.
Class Counts combines theoretical discussions of the concept of class with a wide range of comparative empirical investigations of class.
Deepening Democracy
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Author : Archon Fung
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2003
Deepening Democracy written by Archon Fung and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty-first. This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, and this volume explores four contemporary empirical cases in which the principles of such a democracy have been at least partially instituted: the participatory budget in Porto Alegre; the school decentralization councils and community policing councils in Chicago; stakeholder councils in environmental protection and habitat management; and new decentralised governance structures in Kerala. In keeping with the other Real Utopias Project volumes, these case studies are framed by an editors' introduction, a set of commentaries, and concluding notes.
Alternatives To Capitalism
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Author : Robin Hahnel
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-05-24
Alternatives To Capitalism written by Robin Hahnel and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with Political Science categories.
What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power—it is not difficult to list capitalism’s myriad injustices. But is there a preferable and workable alternative? Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy presents a debate between two such possibilities: Robin Hahnel’s “participatory economics” and Erik Olin Wright’s “real utopian” socialism. It is a detailed and rewarding discussion that illuminates a range of issues and dilemmas of crucial importance to any serious effort to build a better world.
Four Futures
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Author : Peter Frase
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-11-01
Four Futures written by Peter Frase and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Political Science categories.
"It is easier to imagine the end of the world," the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, "than to imagine the end of capitalism." Jacobin Editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our society beyond capitalism, and Four Futures imagines just how this might look. Extrapolating possible futures from current changes the world is now experiencing, and drawing upon speculative fictions to illustrate how these futures might be realized, Four Futures examines communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism-or in other words, the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.
Free To Lose
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Author : John E. ROEMER
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Free To Lose written by John E. ROEMER and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Business & Economics categories.
John Roemer challenges the morality of an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production. Unless you start with a certain amount of wealth in such a society, you are only "free to lose." This book addresses crucial questions of political philosophy and normative economics in terms understandable by readers with a minimal knowledge of economics.
Capitalists In Spite Of Themselves
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Author : Richard Lachmann
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
Capitalists In Spite Of Themselves written by Richard Lachmann and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.
Here, Lachmann offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing regions and cities within and across England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands from the 12th through 18th centuries, he shows how conflict among feudal elites---landlords, clerics, kings, and officeholders---transformed the bases of their control over land and labor, forcing the winners of feudal conflicts to become capitalists in spite of themselves as they took defensive actions to protect their privileges from rivals in the aftermath of the Reformation.