Frédéric Lordon

About the author

Born in 1962, Frédéric Lordon is a French economist and philosopher who serves as CNRS Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris. One of the most prominent intellectual voices of the radical left in France, he played an influential role in the Nuit debout movement and regularly contributes to French broadcast and print media on French and European politics, including a column for Le Monde diplomatique. His work advocates Communism as an alternative to capitalism and pursues a Spinoza-inspired materialist re-grounding of the social sciences.