 He has kept intense political contacts in Brazil.He cooperated with left currents of the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT) for several years but during recent years his main contact has been with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), to whom he gave the money of the Prize Sergio Buarque de Hollanda which he received in 2000 for his book The war of Gods.Nowadays Löwy supports Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), a left dissidence of PT.