Michael Löwy

Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He serves as Emeritus Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris and is the co-author, with Joel Kovel, of An Ecosocialist Manifesto (2001). His published works include On Changing the World: Essays in Political Philosophy from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin and Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to the Capitalist Ecological Catastrophe.

GTI Contributions

Author's Response: Do Red and Green Mix?

Roundtable

Author's Response to GTI Roundtable Do Red and Green Mix?
An exchange on the essay Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future

December 2018

Michael Löwy addresses points raised by the contributors to this roundtable.

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Essay

Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future

December 2018

“Green capitalism” is an illusion, and twentieth-century socialism is a perversion. We need a new model and movement for a democratic and ecological socialism that links with the wider movement for a better world.