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Erik Olin Wright is, alongside Fredric Jameson, David Harvey, and Perry Anderson, one of the major figures of contemporary Anglo-American Marxism. In France, he remains however one of the least known. The publication of Utopies réelles, the translation of his work Envisioning Real Utopias (Éditions La Découverte, 2017), in a series edited by Christian Laval and Laurent Jeanpierre, is a turning point in this regard. In the interview, Wright reviews his intellectual trajectory since the 1960s. He traces the genealogy of « analytical Marxism », of which he remains to this day one of the main representatives. He also describes the idea of « real utopia », through which he outlines a new anticapitalism for the 21st century.