Erik Olin Wright’s Optimism of the Intellect
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Erick Olin Wright’s Real Utopias Project was concerned to establish the intellectual grounds for an open-ended politics that was still inspired by the goal of replacing capitalist systems by socialist ones.Conceived when ‘civil society’ was still all the fashion, its emphasis on the need to concentrate on institution-building in civil society was a testament to what Gramsci had called ‘patience allied with perseverance’. Yet the exemplary cases highlighted by Wright - above all the Participatory Budget institutions in Porto Alegre Brazil and those of Quebec’s Chantier de l’economie sociale - lacked the sober assessment actually needed to confirm Wright’s theory of ‘empowered participatory governance’ let alone to reconstruct that theory in light of its inadequacies. What was most problematic about Wright’s real utopias project was its lack of concern with what Gramsci focused on, i.e., the kind of institutional design mass socialist parties needed in order to engage in hegemonic practices as agencies of both class formation and social transformation. This was recognized by Wright himself in his final work.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it