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.
0 有用 小驿 2016-02-12 05:51:58
这书实在是太厚了,但是里面真的有很多很有趣的地方
0 有用 怪力乱神 2020-08-03 19:03:33
好神奇,中文繁体版的豆瓣评论都是骂的,英文版条目都是赞的。
0 有用 山人 2016-10-27 18:59:05
超猛的书!
0 有用 renercc 2017-10-26 18:33:07
冷战出生、越战成人的反战亲共产主义一代。批评资本主义跟民主的根本矛盾,设想共产主义的可能性。看看现实世界里自下而上改变世界的例子还是很让人振奋的:员工所有制、员工民主制的公司,本地人建立的为当地服务的新能源项目。。