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Revolution is a Emergency Brake - Essays on Walter Benjamin Book Description Michael Löwy evaluates his first contact with Walter Benjamin's works as a turning point that shaped his intellectual path, and as a discovery that deeply shook his research on heterodox forms of Marxism in Europe and Latin America. Contrary to Marx, who sees revolutions as the locomotive of world history that progresses non-stop in the context of progress, Benjamin, who puts forward his own criticism of progress and development, presents a model of revolution that he defines as a "survival brake". So, will humanity be able to pull the brake in question? A compilation in which Michael Löwy, one of the authors of the Ecosocialist Manifesto, draws attention to the revolutionary dimension of the works of Benjamin, whom he declared as the "pioneer of ecosocialism", and skillfully brings together his views inspired by non-dogmatic historical materialism and theological concerns... (From the Promotional Bulletin)