Ideologias, utopias e agir social segundo a Octogesima Adveniens

Um agir micropolítico e pedagógico intenso: a humanização entre laços e perspectivas

This paper deals with the challenges of a Brazilian strategy for the healthcare system to improve the quality of its caregiving and managerial response, i.e. the National Humanization Policy. Independent of political, conceptual or results analysis, it discusses the humanization of the healthcare body by means of comparison with its reifications in clinical practice, as seen in the sovereignty ...

Chapter 7 Real Utopias II : Social Empowerment and the Economy

At the center of a socialist alternative to capitalism, in whatever way socialism is understood, is the problem of economic institutions, specifically the social organization of power over the allocation of resources and control of production and distribution. In statist conceptions of socialism such power and control operates primarily through the state, in the strongest version through the di...

Envisioning Real Utopias

A BOOK on utopias by a Marxist sociologist seems promising, perhaps even courageous. In Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright seeks to counter widespread cynicism about radical social transformation. To do this he offers what he calls “real utopias,” which might appear a contradiction or oxymoron. For Wright, however, utopias are not fantasies, or not only fantasies. In the current period ...

Scientific Utopias

Guidelines for Envisioning Real Utopias

This essay explores five general guidelines for discussions of democratic egalitarian alternatives to existing institutions in contemporary capitalist societies: (1) Evaluate alternatives in terms of three criteria: desirability, viability, achievability. (2) Do not let the problem of achievability dictate the discussion of viability. (3) Clarify the problem of winners and losers in structural ...