What is Erik Olin Wright?
[[File:Erik Olin Wright (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Erik Olin Wright''' (February 9, 1947 – January 23, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] [[Analytical Marxism|analytical]] [[Marxist]] [[sociology|sociologist]]. He focused in [[social stratification]] and alternative futures to [[capitalism]]. He worked at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]]. He was known for his classical Marxism views in his breakdown of the working class into subgroups of diversely. Wright introduced novel concepts to adapt to this change of perspective including deep democracy and [[interstitial revolution]].<ref>{{Cite book|title = Envisioning Real Utopias|url = https://archive.org/details/envisioningrealu0000wrig|last = Wright|first = Erik Olin|publisher = Verso|year = 2010|isbn = 978-1-84467-618-7|location = London, New York|pages = [https://archive.org/details/envisioningrealu0000wrig/page/321 321]}}</ref> He was born in [[Berkeley, California]]. Wright studied at [[Harvard University]], [[University of California, Berkeley]] and at [[University of Oxford|Oxford College]]. In 2012, Wright was elected President of the [[American Sociological Association]].<ref>{{cite web|title=American Sociological Association |url=http://www.asanet.org/AM2012/Chairconference.cfm |access-date=June 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504024007/http://www.asanet.org/AM2012/Chairconference.cfm |archive-date=May 4, 2012 }}</ref> Wright died on January 23, 2019, from [[acute myeloid leukemia]] at a hospital in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]], aged 71.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Szetela |first1=Adam |title=Remembering Erik Olin Wright |url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/remembering-erik-olin-wright |access-date=January 24, 2019 |work=[[Dissent (American magazine)|Dissent]] |date=January 23, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/renowned-uw-madison-sociology-professor-erik-olin-wright-dies-at/article_75f40e0e-f5ca-5b4f-8cf4-71760110fed7.html|title=Renowned UW-Madison s