Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019)
Erik Olin Wright was radicalized in the 1960s and remained a Marxist because his moral compass simply wouldn't allow him to drift away. With his death, the Left has lost one of its most brilliant intellectuals.
Articles by: Vivek Chibber
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Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. His latest book, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, is out now from Verso.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Class struggle and running for office often pull in opposite directions. But we can’t build a socialist politics without navigating those waters.
Our Road to Power
The twentieth century left socialists plenty of lessons. Will we heed them?
Workers Hold the Keys
Despite the threat of automation and the weakness of organized labor, workers still hold the key to winning social change.
Why We Still Talk About the Working Class
Socialists focus on the working class because of our diagnosis of what's wrong with society and our prognosis of how to fix it.
Why the Working Class?
Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the center of socialist politics.
Remembering Ellen Meiksins Wood
Ellen Meiksins Wood showed so many of us what it means to be a committed intellectual.
Development From Below
Capitalists are interested in profit, not development. Only workers can empower the Global South.
Subaltern Mythologies
Postcolonial theorists have to stop insisting we choose between the universal and the particular.
How Does the Subaltern Speak?
Postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril.