16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is There Value in Dialectics and Eminent Criticism?
He argues that like criticism and social philosophy can't substitute for that. And we have a marxistrat tradition that seems to not understand that, he says. I fall back and forth between whether or not some kind of imminent critique is compatible with this way thinking about things,. But i think his contribution is to shed light on why it's prevented us from thinking about, you know, the real utopias in the way he wants to.
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