{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"026: How to Erode Capitalism in the 21st Century","description":"On this episode, Jesse and Matt dive into Erik Olin Wright\u2019s posthumous work on imagining practical utopias, entitled How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century, which was published in the fall of 2019\u2014just six months after the author\u2019s untimely death from cancer. Our co-hosts will talk about Erik Olin Wright\u2019s place in keeping the candle of socialism burning during its most bleak period: from Ronald Reagan\u2019s Mourning in AmeriKKKa\u2014at the onset of the 1980s\u2014to the dawn of the new millennium, when the \u201cBattle in Seattle\u201d signified the reformation of the Left, creating the contours for the wild new imaginings of Occupy Wall Street and the liberation struggles of a new century. Matt & Jesse will also converse briefly about Wright\u2019s highly collaborative Real Utopias Project (published by Verso Books) and his magnum opus, Envisioning Real Utopias (2010), the massive and daunting size of which moved the Marxist Sociologist to create a tighter, leaner version that would be of practical use to activists and organizers the world over. Questions to be formed and answered during the conversation: What are the merits of the author\u2019s claims? What are the weaknesses of this very important book? And finally, what are the truly transcendent aspects of Wright\u2019s ideas that deserve placement as key tracks for our mixtape of the future? As Antonio Gramsci famously said, dreamers and fighters for a better world must carry forth with a \u201cpessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.\u201d Less well known is Wright\u2019s gentle retort that to survive the 21st century, we will also need \u201ca bit more optimism of the intellect\u201d too.    Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com   Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com   Facebook Twitter Instagram ","author_name":"The Future Is A Mixtape","author_url":"https:\/\/www.thefutureisamixtape.com\/","html":"