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Mundane Prometheus. How the Renewal of the Everyday Public Sphere can Feed a 21st Century Anticapitalism - Erik Olin Wright, How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century (London, Verso, 2019, 176 p.)

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Erik Olin Wright, How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century (London, Verso, 2019, 176 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

Filippo Barbera
Filippo Barbera*
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CPS Department, University of Torino and Collogio Carlo Alberto, Italy [filippo.barbera@unito.it]
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , December 2020 , pp. 549 - 560
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