Engaging Erik Olin Wright

Introduction: Advancing Wright’s Unfinished Project
Michael Burawoy and Gay Seidman

Part I
THE LIFE AND WORK OF ERIK WRIGHT

A Tale of Two Marxisms
Michael Burawoy

Class, Gender and Utopian Community
Gay Seidman

Love and Marxism
Greta R. Krippner

Wright’s Emancipatory Theory and Practice
Kwang-Yeong Shin

Part II
FROM REAL UTOPIAS TO CLASS ANALYSIS

If You’re a Socialist You Need the Real Utopias Project, whether You Like It or Not
Harry Brighouse

Class Counts for Real Utopias: The Implementation of Free Mass Transit in Seven Brazilian Cities
João Alexandre Peschanski

The Cooperative Market Economy: The Promise and Challenge of Mondragon
Marta Soler-Gallart

Who Will Help Decommodify Housing? Race, Property, Class, and the Struggle for Social Housing in the United States
H. Jacob Carlson and Gianpaolo Baiocchi

The Emancipation Network: Discovering Anticapitalist Institutions within Brazilian Capitalism
Ruy Braga

Part III
FROM CLASS ANALYSIS TO REAL UTOPIAS

The Politics of Contradictory Class Locations: A View from India
Rina Agarwala

The Class Basis of Anticapitalism: Labor Politics in Contemporary Argentina
Rodolfo Elbert

From Class Analysis to Real Utopias and Back Again: Erik Olin Wright in Conversation with Left Populism
Peter Ramand

Fifteen Dollars and a Revolution: Building Anticapitalist Workers’ Movements
Stephanie Luce

Gay Seidman teaches sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where for many years, her office was next to Erik Wright’s. Her books include Manufacturing Militance and Beyond the Boycott.

Michael Burawoy teaches sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of several books including The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes under Capitalism and Socialism and most recently Public Sociology: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia. He was a close friend and literary executor of Erik Wright.