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Envisioning Real Utopias (Paperback)
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Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent
convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for
alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet
there has been a global retreat by the Left: on the assumption that
liberal capitalism is the only game in town, political theorists
tend to dismiss as utopian any attempt to rethink our social and
economic relations. As Fredric Jameson first argued, it is now
easier for us to imagine the end of the world than an alternative
to capitalism.
Erik Olin Wright's "Envisioning Real Utopias" is a comprehensive
assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. Building on
a lifetime's work analyzing the class system in the developed
world, as well as exploring the problem of the transition to a
socialist alternative, Wright has now completed a systematic
reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left
theorists and political actors. "Envisioning Real Utopias" aims to
put the social back into socialism, laying the foundations for a
set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist
system. Characteristically rigorous and engaging, this will become
a landmark of social thought for the twenty-first century.
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