How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity can both provide the basis for a critique of capitalism, and help to guide us towards a socialist and democratic society.In this elegant book, Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into a concise and tightly argued manifesto analyzing the varieties of anti-capitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the foundations for a society dedicated to human flourishing. How to Be an Anticapitalist is an urgent and powerful argument for socialism, and a unparalleled guide to help us get there. Another world is possible.

Info autore

Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019) was Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin and former president of the American Sociological Association. He authored many books, including Classes, Interrogating Inequality, Class Counts, Deepening Democracy (with Archon Fung), and Envisioning Real Utopias

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Erik O. Wright, Erik Olin Wright, Wright Erik Olin
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.05.2021
• EAN: 9781788739559
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-955-9
• Pagine: 176
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche; Politics & government, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Politics and government, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions