Frédéric Lordon
Frédéric Lordon (born 15 January 1962) is a French economist and philosopher,
CNRS Director of Research at the ''[http://cessp.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique107&lang=fr Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique]'' in
Paris.
He is an influential figure in France's
Nuit debout movement and has regularly contributed to French broadcast and print media on French and European politics, and also writes a regular opinion column for
Le Monde diplomatique. He has argued in favour of
Communism as an alternative to
Capitalism in books, articles and media appearances, and has been engaged in a project of re-grounding the social sciences in a
Spinoza-inspired
materialism. He is considered one of the most prominent intellectual voices of the radical left in France today.
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