Engaging Erik Olin Wright

Introduction: Advancing Wright’s Unfinished Project
Michael Burawoy and Gay Seidman

Part I
THE LIFE AND WORK OF ERIK WRIGHT

A Tale of Two Marxisms
Michael Burawoy

Class, Gender and Utopian Community
Gay Seidman

Love and Marxism
Greta R. Krippner

Wright’s Emancipatory Theory and Practice
Kwang-Yeong Shin

Part II
FROM REAL UTOPIAS TO CLASS ANALYSIS

If You’re a Socialist You Need the Real Utopias Project, whether You Like It or Not
Harry Brighouse

Class Counts for Real Utopias: The Implementation of Free Mass Transit in Seven Brazilian Cities
João Alexandre Peschanski

The Cooperative Market Economy: The Promise and Challenge of Mondragon
Marta Soler-Gallart

Who Will Help Decommodify Housing? Race, Property, Class, and the Struggle for Social Housing in the United States
H. Jacob Carlson and Gianpaolo Baiocchi

The Emancipation Network: Discovering Anticapitalist Institutions within Brazilian Capitalism
Ruy Braga

Part III
FROM CLASS ANALYSIS TO REAL UTOPIAS

The Politics of Contradictory Class Locations: A View from India
Rina Agarwala

The Class Basis of Anticapitalism: Labor Politics in Contemporary Argentina
Rodolfo Elbert

From Class Analysis to Real Utopias and Back Again: Erik Olin Wright in Conversation with Left Populism
Peter Ramand

Fifteen Dollars and a Revolution: Building Anticapitalist Workers’ Movements
Stephanie Luce