Envisioning Real Utopias
Note: This is a book manuscript-in-progress. When chapters are finished as coherent drafts I will add links to them in this table of contents. I welcome comments from anyone who reads this material, but since the final text will undoubtedly change in the course of revisions, the manuscript should not be quoted without checking with me first. Please send comments to me at: wright@ssc.wisc.edu
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 2. The Tasks of Emancipatory Social Science draft 2.5 August 2008
Part I. Diagnosis and Critique
Chapter 3. What’s so bad about Capitalism? draft 2.0 August 2008
Part II. Alternatives
Chapter 4. Thinking about Alternatives to Capitalism draft 2.0 August 2008
Chapter 5. The Socialist Compass draft 2.0 August 2008
Chapter 6. Real Utopias I: Social Empowerment and the State draft 2.0 August 2008
Chapter 7. Real Utopias II: Social Empowerment and the Economy draft 2.0 August 2008
Part III. Transformation
Chapter 8. Elements of a theory of transformation draft 2.0 August 2008
Chapter 9. Ruptural Transformation draft 2.0 August 2008
Chapter 10. Interstitial Transformation draft 2.0 August 2008
Chapter 11. Symbiotic Transformation draft 2.0 August 2008
Conclusion
Chapter 12. Making Utopias Real
Paper summarizing the overall themes of the book: "Taking the 'Social' in Socialism Seriously"
published version, "Compass Points: towards a socialist alternative", New Left Review 41 September-October, 2006, pp. 93-124
Spanish translation of New Left Review essay, "LOS PUNTOS DE LA BRÚJULA: hacia una alternativa socialista"
"Guidelines for Envisioning Real Utopias" Soundings
Discussions of Envisioning Real Utopias, Berkeley, October 2007; Ankara, Turkey, November 2007
Miscellaneous Readings on themes in Envisioning Real Utopias
G.A. Cohen, "Back to Socialist Basics"
Philippe van Parijs and Robert Van der Veen, "A Capitalist Road to Communism"
Erik Olin Wright, "Why Something like Socialism is needed for the transition to something like communism"
Erik Olin Wright, "Basic Income as a Socialist Project" (Basic Income Studies, issue #1, 2006)
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, Associations and Democracy. Chapter 1 "Secondary Associations and Democratic Governance"
Jean-Louis Laville, Benoît Lévesque and Marguerite Mendell "The Social Economy, Diverse Approaches and Practices in Europe and Canada."
Nancy Neamtam, "The Social Economy: Finding A Way Between The Market And The State"
Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright, Deepening Democracy.
Chapter 1. Thinking about empowered participatory governance
Epilogue. Countervailing power in empowered participatory governance
Harry Brighouse and Erik Olin Wright, "A proposal to Transform the House of Lords into a Citizens’ Assembly"
Harry Brighouse and Erik Olin Wright, "Strong Gender Egalitarianism" (paper for the real utopias conference on gender equality)
Amy Lang, "But is it For Real? The British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly as a model of state-sponsored citizen empowerment" (forthcoming, Politics & Society)
Three papers from the Real Utopias Project conference on Pensions and the Control of Capital:
Erik Olin Wright, "Making Capital Socially Accountable: An Introduction to Robin Blackburn and Ewald Engelen"
Robin Blackburn, "The Global Pension Crisis: From Gray Capitalism to Responsible Accumulation"
Ewald Engelen, "Resocializing Capital: Putting Pension Savings in the Service of 'Financial Pluralism'?"
A Twentieth Anniversary symposium on van Parijs and van der Veen, "A Capitalist Road to Communism", Basic Income Studies volume 1:1, June 2006. http://www.bepress.com/bis/vol1/iss1/