What's Left of Philosophy cover image

16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science

What's Left of Philosophy

00:00

The Limits and Gaps of Social Reproduction

Social systems, particularly when they are built ron deep cleavages and forms of oppression, have multiple requirements for their stable reproduction. And in general, there is no reason to believe that these requirements are entirely consistent. So where are the contradictions and gaps that start to reveal how the machinery is is rickety? Where it's where you can exploit it. That can be interstitially symbiodically or a moment of rupture. But if you already assume that, i don't want to put in this agonistic way, the system ou'r struggling against is completely coherent, is completely no fect. Then you've already lopped off the anticipatory part of social theory

Play episode from 56:49
Transcript

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app