Analytical Marxism in the 1990s
Wright, Levine & Sober's "Reconstructing Marxism" (1992) is a brilliant book. But we need to think harder than WLS do about how to steer away from left identitarianism and reconstruct class politics.
Three Sundays ago, I wrote about Erik Olin Wright, Andrew Levine & Elliott Sober’s criminally underrated book Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History. That essay was called Historical Materialism in the 1990s and, as the title indicates, it was squarely focused on the “and the theory of history” part of Reconstructing Mar…