Erik Olin Wright is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Here he engages in conversation with Dan Little about his "real utopias" project.
Just read his 'How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century'. Brilliant book. Very clear, insightful, pragmatic. Helps you think clearly and systematically.
The worker in Argentina are not thinking this way. When they got wind of the fact that the owner of the factories and machinery was going to sell the company out from under them to an outside hedge fund investor(s) the workers realized two things contractual relations were violated by the owner(s). By selling the machines the owners was taking away the productivity of the workers and so the workers occupied the factories, slept overnight next to the machines and continued working them by themselves by day completely under their control and organization. In short, the Kirschner government are not cracking down on the workers that took over the factories of the owner and they remain in court over the breech of contract with the owner but the government, national guard, police, community and society are finding out that the worker take over has raised the GNP, making society less endemic of poverty. Why aren't workers in America doing this when companies are being sold out from under their feet by Wall Street investment firms? So the workers learn solidarity, community and merge education with their trade work in the factory, to which less kids are on the streets, and would never work for a boss again in Argentina. Infected by the bug of real emancipation Argentinian working class are more revolutionary in a positive way than American workers ought to be given the American working class is far more the most powerful in the world but is the least intellectually developed, makes America a paradox.
Let us keep Trump out of the conversation; let's keep Obama out of it, forget about climate change in this conversation, set aside race for the moment. And I am right there with you.
Rest In Power...Your work here is done.
This is good information for all who want to imagine alternatives and possibilities - such a clear thinker and speaker.
Just read his 'How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century'. Brilliant book. Very clear, insightful, pragmatic. Helps you think clearly and systematically.
The worker in Argentina are not thinking this way. When they got wind of the fact that the owner of the factories and machinery was going to sell the company out from under them to an outside hedge fund investor(s) the workers realized two things contractual relations were violated by the owner(s). By selling the machines the owners was taking away the productivity of the workers and so the workers occupied the factories, slept overnight next to the machines and continued working them by themselves by day completely under their control and organization. In short, the Kirschner government are not cracking down on the workers that took over the factories of the owner and they remain in court over the breech of contract with the owner but the government, national guard, police, community and society are finding out that the worker take over has raised the GNP, making society less endemic of poverty. Why aren't workers in America doing this when companies are being sold out from under their feet by Wall Street investment firms?
So the workers learn solidarity, community and merge education with their trade work in the factory, to which less kids are on the streets, and would never work for a boss again in Argentina. Infected by the bug of real emancipation Argentinian working class are more revolutionary in a positive way than American workers ought to be given the American working class is far more the most powerful in the world but is the least intellectually developed, makes America a paradox.
Let us keep Trump out of the conversation; let's keep Obama out of it, forget about climate change in this conversation, set aside race for the moment. And I am right there with you.
So, let's side aside everything related to politics, and then you'll agree to talk about politics. How convenient.