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标题：Editor’s Introduction: Utopias and the Politics of Dispossession
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作者：Jackie Smith
期刊名称：Journal of World-Systems Research
电子版ISSN：1076-156X
出版年度：2012
卷号：18
期号：2
出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：The survival of the global capitalist order depends upon its ability to convince people who are disempowered and dispossessed by this system that there is no alternative. Thus, utopias are defined as impossible and nonexistent. Yet Erik Olin Wright’s Real Utopias project upends this dominant logic and highlights actually existing alternatives to capitalism that have been essential to the very survival of many. The deepening global financial crisis heightens the urgency that these real utopias become more widely known and practiced.