Sublime

sociologist Erik Olin Wright understood participatory associations as “real utopias” that contribute to a social change through “interstitial transformation.”

The neoliberal reforms we have witnessed over the past decades are no doubt pernicious. The downfall of the welfare state, however, is due not only to neoliberal ideology but also to the general reliance on the generation of capital wealth, which makes the welfare state hostage to economic crises.

Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to providi

Wright’s description of the “strategic logics of anticapitalism” offers a valuable framework. Wright uses a two-by-two matrix to identify four loci of “anticapitalist” activity, with an axis for the location of the strategy (state or civil society) and an axis for the goal of the strategy (neutralizing harms or transcending structures).26 Wright de

social engagement to sustain democracy, people’s shared exercise of power. All of these essentials of social life are jeopardized by contemporary cultural trends which damage communication and prioritize self-interest.

Dans la glaciation politique des sciences sociales américaines des années 1950, Wright Mills apparaît en effet comme un franc-tireur, attaquant aussi bien les constructions théoriques pompeuses d’un Talcott Parsons que la division extrême des objets de recherche pratiquée par l’empirisme caractéristique du tournant béhavioriste. Il proclame son att

This is to my mind the essence of right-wing thought: a political ontology that through such subtle means allows violence to define the very parameters of social existence and common sense.