¿El triunfo final del marxismo analítico? Erik Olin Wright y la ciencia social

espanolLa muerte de Erik Olin Wright ha sido recibida casi unanimemente como una gran perdida para la ciencia social y su obra ha suscitado sonoros elogios entre los sociologos. Resulta sorprendente comparar dicha reaccion con la recepcion hostil que tuvo el marxismo analitico en la sociologia y especialmente entre los sociologos marxistas durante el siglo XX. En este articulo se examinara la concepcion de la ciencia social que Erik Olin Wright defendio y aplico analizando los principios metodologicos y epistemologicos que segun el identificaban al marxismo analitico, corriente teorica con la que mantuvo un compromiso explicito a lo largo de toda su trayectoria. Ello llevara a diseccionar criticamente que habia de “marxista” en el marxismo analitico, asi como la nocion de “ciencia social emancipatoria” de Wright, mostrando que acaba sucumbiendo al dilema epistemico-normativo que ha atenazado a todas las corrientes de “sociologia critica”. EnglishThe death of Erik Olin Wright has been considered almost unanimously as a great loss for social science as well as accompanied by extensive praise of his work among sociologists. It is surprising to compare this reaction with the hostile reception that analytical Marxism had in sociology during the 20th century, especially among Marxist sociologists. This article will examine the conception of social science that Erik Olin Wright defended and applied by analysing the methodological and epistemological principles that he considered as definitory of analytical Marxism, the theoretical trend he explicitly committed with throughout his career. This will lead to a critical dissection of what exactly was ‘Marxist’ about analytical Marxism, as well as of Wright's notion of ‘emancipatory social science’; this notion, it will be argued, ends up succumbing to the epistemic-normative dilemma that all attempts to build a ‘critical sociology’ have faced.