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Erik Olin Wright is known for his analysis of class structures in advanced capitalist societies, where there are no longer just bosses and workers, but a whole swath of functionaries, executives, project managers and experts in the middle. <\/p>\n

He has written on how expert manager employees tend to be closer to the interests of \u2018the bosses\u2019, the owners of capital, than the other workers, due to the barriers to enter their occupation and their skills privileges.<\/p>\n

As an expert, a sociologist of class, and a university academic from a privileged part of the world, his reflection upon his own position is therefore especially interesting.<\/p>\n

How do you see your own class position?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbThere is absolutely no doubt that I am privileged. Any academic that complains about income is just not justified! In a world, where people have no control over their work, I have complete control over what I do. My salary as an American academic puts me in the top five per cent of the income distribution. So I can\u2019t give a self-defence of it, other that I am playing by the rules of the game, even though the rules are unjust,\u00ab Erik Olin Wright says.<\/p>\n

\u00bbI have no moral defence of it. But I take it as one of the implications that I use my academic skills for purposes of social change, and social justice,\u00ab before adding with a smile:<\/p>\n

\u00bbBut at the level of moral responsibility, I don\u2019t know whether this counts as redemption!\u00ab<\/p>\n

Read about Elin Olin Wright’s new book on utopia here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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