Envisioning real utopias / Erik Olin Wright.
By: Wright, Erik Olin
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2010Description: xviii, 394 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781844676187 (hbk.); 1844676188 (hbk.); 184467617X (pbk.); 9781844676170 (pbk.)Subject(s): Socialism | Social justice -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 335 LOC classification: HX73 | .W755 2010Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-383) and index.
Introduction: why real utopias? -- The tasks of emancipatory social science -- What's so bad about capitalism? -- Thinking about alternatives to capitalism -- The socialist compass -- Real utopias I : social empowerment and the state -- Real utopias II : social empowerment and the economy -- Elements of a theory of transformation -- Ruptural transformation -- Insterstitial transformation -- Symbiotic transformation -- Conclusion: making utopias real.
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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