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