Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism and Marxism

Wright, Erik Olin Olin

ISBN 10: 0860916332 / ISBN 13: 9780860916338

Published by Verso Books, 1994

About this Item

owner's name in pen, else As New. xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents: Class Analysis. Inequality -- The class analysis of poverty -- The status of the political in the concept of class structure -- Coercion and consent in contested exchange -- Class and politics -- Socialism. Capitalism's futures: a reconceptualization of the problem of post-capitalist modes of production -- Why something like socialism is necessary for the transition to something like communism -- Marxism. What is analytical Marxism? -- Marxism as social science -- Explanation and emancipation in Marxism and Feminism -- Marxism after Communism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism and Marxism
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860916332
• ISBN 13: 9780860916338
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy
  • Politics

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Synopsis

This lively new collection from one of America's leading sociologists covers a wide range of theoretical problems of interest to radical social scientists and political activists.

The book opens with a fascinating autobiographical essay exploring the challenges and benefits of being a Marxist scholar in the present era. Following this is a discussion of various issues in class analysis, with particular attention being paid to two overarching themes: class and inequality, and the relationship between class and power.

The second section of the book engages the problem of socialism as a possible future to capitalism. Wright attempts to clarify the conceptual status of socialism, and discusses why certain reforms such as basic income grants may ultimately require the introduction of some form of socialism for their full realization.

Interrogating Inequality concludes by examining the general problem of Marxism as a tradition of radical social theory. Three issues in particular are discussed: the central principles of "analytical Marxism" as a strategy for reconstructing Marxism as a social scientific theory; the relationship between Marxism and feminism as emancipatory social theories; and the prospects for Marxism in the aftermath of the collapse of communist regimes.

About the Author

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