El capitalismo ha transformado el mundo y aumentado nuestra productividad, pero a costa de un enorme sufrimiento humano y de dinamitar el futuro ecológico del planeta. Si queremos que haya un mañana para todos, debemos pensar un horizonte...
El concepto de clase, tal vez el más importante de la teoría marxista, carece paradójicamente de una definición formal y rigurosa en la obra de Marx. Hay un desajuste entre el nivel estructural abstracto del análisis...
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared valuesâequality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarityâcan provide both...
What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and powerâit is not difficult to list capitalismâ...
What are the causes of inequality in capitalist society? In Understanding Class, leading left sociologist Erik Olin Wright returns to the fundamental concept underlying this question, and interrogates the different theories and paradigms that have arisen...
The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty-first. This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, and this volume explore...
âNice idea, but it doesnât work in practice.â How often have socialists had this claim thrown back at them? And now, after the events of 1989, many of the Left are openly wondering what a defensible...
This lively new collection from one of Americaâs leading sociologists covers a wide range of theoretical problems of interest to radical social scientists and political activists.