Sociology 929: Envisioning Real Utopias

Spring semester 2008

Weekly Reading Interrogations & Discussion Agenda

SESSION	DATE	READING	INTERROGATIONS	SEMINAR AGENDA	SEMINAR SESSION AUDIO RECORDING
1	Jan. 24	Introduction to the seminar			audio
2	Jan. 31	Preface and Chapter 1. The Tasks of Emancipatory Social Science	interrogations	agenda	audio
3	Feb. 7	Chapter 2. What’s so bad about Capitalism?	interrogations	agenda
4	Feb. 14	Chapter 3. Thinking about Alternatives to Capitalism	interrogations	agenda	audio: part I part II
	Feb. 20	no seminar session
5	Feb. 28	Chapter 4. The Socialist Compass	interrogations	agenda
6	March 6	Chapter 5. Real Utopias I: Social Empowerment and the State	interrogations	agenda	audio: part I part II
7	March 13	Chapter 6. Real Utopias II: Social Empowerment and the Economy	interrogations	agenda	audio: part I part II
8	March 27	Chapter 7. Elements of a theory of transformation	interrogations	agenda	audio
9	April 3	Chapter 8. Ruptural Transformation	interrogations		audio
10	April 10	Chapter 9. Interstitial Transformation	interrogations		audio
11	April 17	Chapter 10. Symbiotic Transformation	interrogations		audio
	April 24	No seminar session
	May 1	No seminar session
	May 8	No seminar session
	May 9-11	Mini-conference, Upham Woods, Program & Abstracts

Participants at the end of semester Conference on Envisioning Real Utopias, May 9-11 2008

Selected Additional Readings

Introduction
Hayek, Fatal conceit [ pp. 6-10 ] [ pp. 48-65 ] [ pp. 66 - 88 ]

Sociological Marxism
Erik Olin Wright and Michael Burawoy Sociological Marxism (unpublished book manscript)
    Outline of book
    Chapter 1. Why Sociological Marxism?
    Chapter 2. Taking Seriously the Social in Socialism

Eelectoral Democracy
Selections from Ackerman and Fishkin, Deliberation Day . (prepublication text)
Selections from Ackerman and Ayers, Voting with Dollars [ pp. 3-24 ] [pp.25-44 ] [pp.181-221 ]

Associative Democracy
Joshua Cohen & Joel Rogers, Associations and Demogracy (Real Utopias Project, voil. 1, Verso, 1995)

ch. 1, Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, Secondary Associations and Democratic Governance. [pp. 7-37 ] [ pp. 38 - 73 ] [ pp. 74 - 98 ]
ch. 2. Paul Q. Hirst. Can Secondary Associations Enhance Democratic Governance [pp. 101-113 ]
ch. 3. Claus Offe. Some Skeptical Considerations on the Malleability of Representative Institutions [pp. 114-132 ]
ch. 4. Jane Mansbridge. A Deliberative Perspective on Neo-Corporatism [pp.133-147 ]
ch. 5. Andrew Szasz. Progress through Mischief: the social movement alternative to secondary associations. [pp.128-156 ]
ch. 6. Andrew Levine. Democratic Corporatism and/versus Socialism. [pp. 157-166 ]
ch. 7. Philippe Schmitter. The Irony of Modern Democracy. [pp. 167-183 ]
ch. 8. Wolfgang Streeck. Inclusion and Secession: questions on the boundaries of Associative Democracy. [pp.184-192 ]
ch. 9. Ira Katznelson. On Architectural Syncretism. [pp. 193-199 ]
ch. 10. An Institutional Critique of Associative Democracy. [pp. 201-206 ]
ch. 11. Iris Marion Young. Social Groups in Associative Democracy. [pp. 207-213 ]
ch. 12. Heinz Klug. Extending Democracy in South Africa. [pp. 214-235 ]
ch. 13. Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers. Solidarity, Democracy, Association. [pp. 236-267 ]

Basic Income
Selections from Erik Olin Wright (ed) Redesigning Distribution
Van der Veen & van Parijs, Capitalist road to communism
Wright, Why something like socialism is necessary for the transition to something like communism
Van Parijs, Competing justification of basic income [ pp. 3 - 29 ] [ pp. 215 - 235 ]
Elster, Comment on van der Veen and Van Parijs
Purdy, Citizenship, Basic income and state

Workers Cooperatives
Hansman, Ownership of enterprise [ pp. 11 - 23 ] [ pp. 24 - 34 ] [ pp. 35-49 ] [ pp. 66 - 88 ] [pp. 89-119 ] [pp.120-145 ]

Market Socialism
John Roemer, Equal Shares (volume II, Real Utopias Project, Verso),
    chapter 1 . John Roemer "A Future for Socialism"

Commentaries
    chapter 2     William Simon, Inequality and Alienation in the socialist Capital Market
    chapter 3     Nancy Folbre, Roemer's Market Socialism: a feminist critique
    chapter 4     Debra Satz, Status Inequalities and MOdels of Market Socialism
    chapter 5       Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, My Utopia or Yours?
    chapter 6     Mieke Meurs, Market Socialism as a Culture of Cooperation
    chapter 7    Erik Olin Wright, Political Power, Democracy and Coupon Socialism
    chapter 9     Fred Block, Finance and Market Socialism
    chapter 11     Harry Brighouse, Transitional and Utopian Market Socialism
    chapter 12     Richard J. Arneson, What Do Socialists Want?
    chapter 13     Andrew Levine, Saving Socialism and./or Abandoning It
    chapter 14     Julius Sensat, Socialism as an Attitude
    chapter 15     Michael Burawoy, Why Coupon Socialism Never Stood a Chance in Russia

Deepening Democracy

Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance,

by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright,

with contributions by Rebecca Abers Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Joshua Cohen, Patrick Heller, Bradley Karkkainen, Rebecca Krantz, Jane Mansbridge, Joel Rogers, Craig Thomas, and T.M. Thomas Isaac

(Verso, 2003)

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Thinking about Empowered Participatory Governance, by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright

Part II. Case Studies (chapter 2-5)

Part III. Commentaries (chapter 6-10)

Part IV. Epilogue

Chapter 11. Countervailing Power in empowered Participatory Governance, by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright

References and Index