Postscript to Gastil and Wright: The Anticapitalist Argument for Sortition*

• DOI: 10.1177/0032329218789887
• Author: Erik Olin Wright
• Published date: 01 September 2018
• Date: 01 September 2018
• Subject Matter: Special Issue Articles

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2018, Vol. 46(3) 331 –335

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Special Issue Article

Postscript to Gastil and

Wright: The Anticapitalist

Argument for Sortition*

Erik Olin Wright

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Abstract

The author makes the case for sortition from a Marxist perspective, explaining how

sortition could become part of an anticapitalist political strategy.

Keywords

anticapitalism, capitalist development, electoral reform, Marxism, radical politics, sortition

Corresponding Author:

Erik Olin Wright, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 8112D Social Science Bldg.,

Madison, WI 53706, USA.

Email: eowright@wisc.edu

*This special issue of Politics & Society titled “Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative

Governance” features a preface, an introductory anchor essay and postscript, and six articles that

were presented as part of a workshop held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, September 2017,

organized by John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright.

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