Taking the Red Pill? William Clare Roberts vs. Vivek Chibber on the Class Matrix

Roberts is a good and interesting writer. But his polemic against Chibber misses the mark.

A couple of months ago, at the Historical Materialism conference in London, I attended a panel on the work of Erik Olin Wright. I was pleased to see how packed it was—a promising sign of enduring interest in analytical Marxism, or at least in one of the most prominent members of AM’s first generation.

One of the speakers worked in a jab against one of Wr…