Erik Olin Wright (University of Madiscon-Wisconsin) 'How to be an anti-capitalist for the twenty-first century?'
This is to announce a unique workshop at the University of Sydney centred around the hosting of Professor Erik Olin Wright in the Department of Political Economy as an Honorary [...]
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When Erik Olin Wright ‘fell into Marxism’ in the 1970s, it was ‘the only game in town’ for a serious radical scholar, and in the process of storming the academic social sciences. By the 1990s this was no longer so, with Marxism retreating to the margins inside and outside the academy. Wright [...]
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How is the causative role of ideas appreciated in understanding the political economy of neoliberalism?
My latest journal article published in Globalizations delves into this question through a feature review on an outstanding book now available in paperback, which is Damien [...]
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On 17 August, Erik Olin Wright hosted a specific international workshop on ‘What has Sociological Marxism ever done for us?’ at the University of Sydney. Participants were from Chile, Austria, nationally across Australia, and various universities within Sydney including Macquarie [...]
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Over the last weeks, the Marxism Reading Group of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at Nottingham University has read the book The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (London: Verso, 2015) by Murray Bookchin. In this post, six [...]
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From Grand Paradigm Battles to Integrated Frameworks of Class Analysis
Erik Olin Wright (Professor of Sociology at University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Erik Olin Wright is one of the world’s leading sociologists and arguably the most well-known Marxist sociologist [...]
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A glance at emerging forms of resistance in the current era of globalisation and ecological crisis suggests that the appropriate ‘agents of history’ may now be ‘meta-industrial workers’, rather than the industrial proletariat. In exploring this thesis, I will not [...]
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By devoting the 2015 Socialist Register to investigating class formation and class strategies on a global scale, as we also did the 2014 volume marking the Register’s fiftieth anniversary, Greg Albo and me were going against fashion in quite deliberately emphasising the fundamental [...]
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