The French Left and the Politicization of Environmental Issues

Philippe Buton (1)

1 CERHIC - Centre d'études et de recherche en histoire culturelle - EA 2616

The meeting between the left and ecology was belated, shocked and temporally differentiated. There were three different kinds of behaviours towards ecology, those exhibited by the opponents, the followers and the pioneers. The intersection of three parameters explains this typology: the relation of these organizations to the notion of modernity, the relation to Marxism, and the notion of revolutionary optimism.

Keywords: Communism far left left political ecology socialism; Communism; far left; left; political ecology; socialism

Domains: Political science; History

Philippe Buton. The French Left and the Politicization of Environmental Issues. European History Quarterly, 2022, 52 (3), pp.352-372. ⟨10.1177/02656914221103157⟩. ⟨hal-04356116⟩