Erik Olin Wright wrote Marxist sociology about class structure and practical alternatives to capitalism. Classes develops a detailed framework for analysing positions within capitalist economies, while Envisioning Real Utopias examines institutions such as cooperatives, participatory budgeting and social ownership as experiments that might expand democratic control. Understanding Class combines different traditions of class analysis rather than insisting on one single model. Wright's writing is systematic, empirical and unusually interested in institutional possibilities as well as critique. The clearest browsing territory is class theory, Marxist sociology, democratic socialism and alternative economic institutions. Read more Less