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1 " Would-be green capitalism is nothing but a publicity stunt, a label for the purpose of selling a commodity, or - in the best of cases - a local initiative equivalent to a drop of water on the arid soil of the capitalist desert. "
― Michael Löwy , Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe
2 " The future throws a bridge toward the past, over the gaping abyss of capitalist non-culture. "
― Michael Löwy , On Changing the World: Essays in Marxist Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin
3 " The most surprising and original part of [Lucien Goldmann's] work is, however, the attempt to compare—without assimilating one to another—religious faith and Marxist faith: both have in common the refusal of pure individualism (rationalist or empiricist) and the belief in trans-individual values—God for religion, the human community for socialism. In both cases the faith is based on a wager—the Pascalian wager on the existence of God and the Marxist wager on the liberation of humanity—that presupposes risk, the danger of failure and the hope of success. "
― Michael Löwy , The War of Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America
4 " Perselisihan yang dipicu oleh masalah agama kini mengancam kehidupan kita. Sejarah peradaban dan kemanusiaan hancur ketika kobaran kebencian merasuki perasaan masing-masing pemeluk agama. Padahal, ada persoalan mendasar yang terus-menerus disemai dan dipelihara: agama selalu saja diperalat oleh kekuasaan politik dan kekuatan ekonomi sebagai dasar teologis pembenaran bagi kepentingan mereka sendiri. Maka, tampillah gerakan Teologi Pembebasan menantang ketertaklukan lembaga-lembaga agama oleh hegemoni kekuasaan politik dan kekuatan ekonomi yang serakah itu. Gerakan keagamaan radikal dan revolusioner ini, terutama di Amerika Latin, membuktikan bahwa agama bisa dan seharusnya menjadi “bara api” melawan kezaliman, ketidakadilan, dan ketidakmanusiawian. "
― Michael Löwy , Teologi Pembebasan
5 " The revolution has to be self-liberation. "
