How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values-equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity-can both provide the basis for a critique of capitalism, and help to guide us towards a socialist and democratic society. In this elegant book, Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into a concise and tightly argued manifesto analyzing the varieties of anti-capitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the foundations for a society dedicated to human flourishing. How to Be an Anticapitalist is an urgent and powerful argument for socialism, and a unparalleled guide to help us get there. Another world is possible.
A benchmark contribution to necessary radical thinking-- Göran Therborn
Only a thinker of Wright's genius could sustain such a badly needed political imagination without losing analytical clarity and precision. -- Michael Burawoy
Hugely rich and stimulating ... An incisive diagnosis of the harms done by capitalism; a masterful synthesis of the best work in political sociology and political economy over the past thirty years. -- Adam Swift, in praise of Envisioning Real Utopias
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century deserves to be widely read. In 150-odd pages, Wright makes the case for what's wrong with capitalism, what would be better, and how to achieve it. This is the rare book that can speak to both the faithful and the unconverted. You could buy it for your sceptical uncle or your militant cousin: there is something here for the reader who needs persuading that another world is possible, and the reader who wants ideas for bringing that world into being. -- Ben Tarnoff * The Guardian *
[An] eloquent and accessible volume. -- Tom Mayer * ColoradoDaily *
An urgent and powerful case for socialism, Wright analyses different sorts of anticapitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the groundwork for a society dedicated to human flourishing. * Dazed *
Only a thinker of Wright's genius could sustain such a badly needed political imagination without losing analytical clarity and precision. -- Michael Burawoy
Hugely rich and stimulating ... An incisive diagnosis of the harms done by capitalism; a masterful synthesis of the best work in political sociology and political economy over the past thirty years. -- Adam Swift, in praise of Envisioning Real Utopias
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century deserves to be widely read. In 150-odd pages, Wright makes the case for what's wrong with capitalism, what would be better, and how to achieve it. This is the rare book that can speak to both the faithful and the unconverted. You could buy it for your sceptical uncle or your militant cousin: there is something here for the reader who needs persuading that another world is possible, and the reader who wants ideas for bringing that world into being. -- Ben Tarnoff * The Guardian *
[An] eloquent and accessible volume. -- Tom Mayer * ColoradoDaily *
An urgent and powerful case for socialism, Wright analyses different sorts of anticapitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the groundwork for a society dedicated to human flourishing. * Dazed *
Erik Olin Wright was Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He authored many books, including Classes, Interrogating Inequality, Class Counts, Deepening Democracy (with Archon Fung), and Envisioning Real Utopias.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781788736053 |
| ISBN 10 | 1788736052 |
| Title | How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century |
| Author | Erik Olin Wright |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2019-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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