Envisioning Real Utopias

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Envisioning Real Utopias
Envisioning Real Utopias
Author : Erik Olin Wright
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Publisher : Verso Books
Language : English
Release Date : 05 May 2020
ISBN : 9781789601459
Pages : 536 pages
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Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations is utopian. Erik Olin Wright's major new work is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. A systematic reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists and political actors, Envisioning Real Utopias lays 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.

Envisioning Real Utopias

Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright

Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations is utopian. Erik Olin Wright's

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