Erik Olin Wright and the Taxonomy of Anti-Socialisms

In his book Envisioning Real Utopias, the late analytical Marxist sociologist Erik Olin Wright provides some useful tools for categorizing objections to proposals for social change.

Erik Olin Wright was a sociologist. But he spent a lot of time around analytic philosophers—his book Reconstructing Marxism, for example, was co-written with two of them. If the best thing about analytic philosophy is its valorization of clarity and rigor and the worst is the tendency of so many analytic philosophers to lose themselves in questions that…