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16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science

What's Left of Philosophy

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Social Theory

i find something really refreshing about his willingness to place that anticipatory dimension, like at the core of his analyses. And you see it in other formulations, right? You have real utopias, which brings those two kind of heterogeneous elements together. I think also what he sees wrong here, and you all can correct me if m wrong about this, but i think that he has an explicit hesitancy towards the notion of ruptural transformation. Cause his issue is, well, how do we start to build those new institutions thatare supposed to replace the old? And we can't just be an auto pilot here. Think something, something, class struggles, something, smashed estate and

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