446g_Envisioning Real Utopias repaginated (harry).indd

446g_Envisioning Real Utopias repaginated (harry).indd

446g_Envisioning Real Utopias repaginated (harry).indd

446g_Envisioning Real Utopias repaginated (harry).indd

In this chapter and the next we will explore a range of real utopian proposals that try to satisfy three main criteria: First, the institutional designs involved are desirable in terms of radical democratic egalitarian emancipatory ideals. Second, they constitute viable alternatives to existing arrangements (i.e. they are consistent with what we know about how institutions work and, if implemen...

446g_Envisioning Real Utopias repaginated (harry).indd

Envisioning real utopias is a central component of a broader intellectual enterprise that can be called emancipatory social science. Emancipatory social science seeks to generate scientifi c knowledge relevant to the collective project of challenging various forms of human oppression. To call this a form of social science, rather than simply social criticism or social philosophy, recognizes the...

446g_Envisioning Real Utopias repaginated (harry).indd

At the center of a socialist alternative to capitalism, in whatever way socialism is understood, is the problem of economic institutions, specifi cally 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 d...