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Tip-Off #103 - Utopia for Realists

Tip-Off #103 - Utopia for Realists

"That I, as a conscious being, will cease to exist pales in significance to the fact that I exist at all." - Erik Olin Wright, "Stardust to Stardust," sociologist, d. 2019.

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Advocates of a socialist alternative to capitalism usually hear others say, "It's a nice idea, but it does not work in practice," or that the Soviet experience proved, once and for all, that capitalism is the best socio-economic model we can get.

Eminent Marxist sociologist Erik Olin Wright offered a new take …

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