16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Worst Type of Idealism
What people believe about possibility is a determinate factor in what is actually concretely possible. If we wanted to use a concrete example, and again, again, to avoid the idealism, we might talk about the, the union drive that happened in bessimer, alabama. No, why didn't it work? Well, on the one hand, you could do something like, well, y people are inherently anti union. Or the union had a lot of black folks, and they like, no, that's not going to be me. And so they got sa.
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