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A Tale of Two Marxisms: Remembering Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019).

Authors :
Burawoy, Michael
Source :
Politics & Society; Dec2020, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p467-494, 28p
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

Intended to capture the entangled history of Marxism, Alvin Gouldner's two Marxisms also frame the intellectual biography of Erik Olin Wright. In the 1970s Wright's Scientific and Critical Marxisms were joined, but later they came apart as each developed its own autonomous trajectory. Erik's Scientific Marxism was the program of class analysis that first brought him international fame. Begun in graduate school, it tailed off in the last two decades of his life, when it played second fiddle to the Critical Marxism of the Real Utopias Project that Erik began in the early 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00323292
Volume :
48
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Politics & Society
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
147065624
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329220966075