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• Anticapitalist Readings of Weber’s Protestant Ethic : Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, György Lukacs, Erich Fromm

  3 December 2011, by LÖWY Michael

  This paper will try to analyze a curious intellectual phenomena: a group of Jewish-German authors that developed, during the Weimar Republic, a radical anti-capitalist and anti-protestant argument, directly inspired by Weber’s Protestant Ethic. They did not hesitate to denounce capitalism as a (…)

• The World Social Forum in Belem do Para

  21 June 2009, by LÖWY Michael

  As is known, the World Social Forum was created by an initiative of social movements in 2001, as a counterpiece to the World Economic Forum of Davos, a celebrated conference of the financial and political elites of the Western capitalist world. The WSF soon became an important planetary meeting (…)