Interrogating Inequality Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism and Marxism

by Wright, Erik Olin

• ISBN13: 9780860916338
• ISBN10: 0860916332
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of many books, including Classes, Interrogating Inequality, Class Counts, Deepening Democracy (with Archon Fung), and Envisioning Real Utopias. For more information on Envisioning Real Utopias and the Real Utopias project, and to access book content, please visit <a href="http://realutopias.org/">realutopias.org</a> (site in progress).

Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue: Falling into Marxism; Choosing to Stay	p. 1
Class Analysis	p. 17
Inequality	p. 21
The Class Analysis of Poverty	p. 32
The Status of the Political in the Concept of Class Structure	p. 51
Coercion and Consent in Contested Exchange	p. 72
Class and Politics	p. 88
Socialism	p. 107
Capitalism's Futures: A Reconceptualization of the Problem of Post-capitalist Modes of Production	p. 112
Why Something like Socialism is Necessary for the Transition to Something like Communism	p. 157
Marxism	p. 173
What is Analytical Marxism?	p. 178
Marxism as Social Science	p. 199
Explanation and Emancipation in Marxism and Feminism	p. 211
Marxism After Communism	p. 234
References	p. 256
Name Index	p. 263
Subject Index	p. 265
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