Frédéric Lordon
Frédéric Lordon is a French economist and philosopher who serves as research director at the National Center for Scientific Research in the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique de Paris. He is a leading intellectual figure in France’s Nuit debout movement and contributes regularly to the French print and broadcast media on national and European politics. He also writes a regular opinion column for Le Monde diplomatique.[1][2]
Lordon has advocated communism as an alternative to capitalism in his books, articles, and media appearances. He is involved in a project to re-found the social sciences on a materialist basis inspired by Baruch Spinoza, and is regarded as one of the most prominent intellectual voices of the radical left in contemporary France.[3]
Lordon graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Puentes y Caminos, the Escuela de Estudios Superiores de Comercio, and the Escuela de Estudios Superiores en Ciencias Sociales.[4]