Love and Marxism*

Greta R. Krippner

Politics & Society, 2020, vol. 48, issue 4, 495-504

Abstract: Erik Olin Wright’s scholarship is often considered to be formed by two entirely disjoint projects represented by his early work on class analysis and his later writings on “real utopias.†This essay uses Michael Burawoy’s recent formulation of the “two Marxisms†thesis as a foil to argue for the continuities rather than discontinuities in the body of work produced by Wright. More particularly, the critical spirit of the real utopias project infused Wright’s work on class analysis from its inception. It is further argued that the limitations Wright encountered in realizing those critical aims directly seeded the search in his later work for institutional design principles and an explicit articulation of normative values that could undergird alternatives to capitalism.

Keywords: Erik Olin Wright; Marxism; class analysis; real utopias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329220966074

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