The Alternative to Utopia Is Myopia

This essay is part of a special issue of Politics & Society celebrating and examining the life and work of longtime board member Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019).This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019), considers Wright’s project of constructing and identifying real utopias. It confronts a tension in Wright’s oeuvre, the question of the knowledge by means of which reformers can identify the utopias that ground the really existing real utopias