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16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science (Patreon)

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In this episode, we discuss Erik Olin Wright’s 2010 book Envisioning Real Utopias. We excavate the relationship between social scientific investigation and normative claims concerning how we ought to structure our society. We ask what a theory of social transformation ought to entail and figure out why we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds yet. So sit back and relax while we pour one out for a real one: Comrade Erik Olin Wright.

patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphil

References:

Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias, (New York: Verso, 2010).

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

Comments

CentrallyPlannedEconomyOfIdeas

I ended up having the Star Trek TNG theme playing in the background during Wills intro and it added a real gravitas to it

Anonymous

Erik Wright is pretty GOAT w/r/t class analysis—I hope you might all be able to do an episode on G.A. Cohen sometime! Kinda unfortunate that he thought dialectical thinking and holism were bullshit, but I can see where he was coming from, especially if he didn’t have pragmatist/Later-Wittgenstein/Sellarsian lenses which maybe might help defend those sorts of ideas more rigorously. I think that might help at least argue for some modification of dialectical materialism.

Roy McGovernor

I bought Class Counts because of this episode, excited to crack it open.