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Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was a renowned scholar on class, Marxist Theory, and the sociology of real utopias. He is the author of many books, including How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century, Class Counts, and Envisioning Real Utopias.
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