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Envisioning Real Utopias-Erik Olin Wright (link)

Posted by Manstuprator on 2024-April-14 20:21:48, Sunday
In reply to Envisioning Real Utopias posted by Stefanos_Katsios on 2024-April-14 12:19:24, Sunday

Envisioning Real Utopias
Verso, 2010
Erik Olin Wright

Description:
“A leading sociologist proposes a new framework for a socialist alternative. 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.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Erik Olin Wright was an American analytical Marxist sociologist, specializing in social stratification, and in egalitarian alternative futures to capitalism. He was the (2012) President of the American Sociological Association.
Erik Olin Wright received two BAs (from Harvard College in 1968, and from Balliol College in 1970), and the PhD from University of California, Berkeley, in 1976. Since that time, he has been a professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Wright has been described as an "influential new left theorist." His work is concerned mainly with the study of social classes, and in particular with the task of providing an update to and elaboration of the Marxist concept of class, in order to enable Marxist and non-Marxist researchers alike to use 'class' to explain and predict people's material interests, lived experiences, living conditions, incomes, organizational capacities and willingness to engage in collective action, political leanings, etc. In addition, he has attempted to develop class categories that would allow researchers to compare and contrast the class structures and dynamics of different advanced capitalist and 'post-capitalist' societies.

FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Social classes

Wright has been described as an "influential new left theorist".[19] His work was concerned mainly with the study of social classes, and in particular with the task of providing an update to and elaboration of the Marxist concept of class, in order to enable Marxist and non-Marxist researchers alike to use "class" to explain and predict people's material interests, lived experiences, living conditions, incomes, organizational capacities and willingness to engage in collective action, political leanings, and so on. In addition, he attempted to develop class categories that would allow researchers to compare and contrast the class structures and dynamics of different advanced capitalist and "post-capitalist" societies.

Wright has stressed the importance of:

control over and exclusion from access to economic/productive resources;
location within production relations;
market capacity in exchange relations;
differential control over income derived from the use of productive resources; and,
differential control over labor effort in defining "class", while at the same time trying to account for the situation of expert, skilled, manager, and supervisory employees, taking inspiration from Weberian accounts of class and class analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Olin_Wright

Table of Contents
Preface........................................................................................................................................ i
Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Real Utopias? ............................................................................. 1
Chapter 2. The Tasks of Emancipatory Social Science .............................................................7
PART I. DIAGNOSIS AND CRITIQUE
Chapter 3. What’s so Bad about Capitalism? .......................................................................... 22
PART II. ALTERNATIVES
Chapter 4. Thinking about Alternatives to Capitalism ............................................................ 58
Chapter 5. The Socialist Compass ...........................................................................................72
Chapter 6. Real Utopias I: Social Empowerment and the State ............................................107
Chapter 7. Real Utopias II: Social Empowerment and the Economy ....................................135
PART III. TRANSFORMATION
Chapter 8. Elements of a Theory of Transformation .............................................................191
Chapter 9. Ruptural Transformation ......................................................................................215
Chapter 10. Interstitial Transformation..................................................................................228
Chapter 11. Symbiotic Transformation..................................................................................240
CONCLUSION
Chapter 12. Making Utopias Real .........................................................................................265
REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................... 273



I have not read the book, but I see all the inequalities fostered by capitalism, and I wonder if some modifications to current systems would make the distribution of goods and services more equitable.

Many have argued that youth, though they do have some economic power (the exercise of which, though, is directed and controlled by the Mass Media), lack real agency and that socialism could liberate them.

I like the idea of liberated boys...

How about you?

M.

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