The Alternative to Utopia Is Myopia

Politics and Society 48 (4):567-584 (2020)
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This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright, considers Wright’s project of constructing and identifying real utopias. It confronts a tension in Wright’s oeuvre, the question of the knowledge by means of which reformers can identify the utopias that ground the really existing real utopias.

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