Ecological Marxist Critique Of Technology

Facing more serious environmental problems, ecological Marxism theory thinks that thetechnology is used irrationally,which is just the direct cause of the ecological crisis. ExtremeEcologism criticism technology led to the ecological crisis and required a return to formertechnological age.However, this is not a solution to the problem. Therefore, they think itshould be directed at causing critical using of technology irrationally capitalist system itself.Ecological Marxism expands on technical critique base on the same as to Marx’sphilosophical position,and both of them are on the irrationality of the capitalist systemcriticized and abandoned.To differ with some others technological critical theory, ecological critique of Marxistideology is not only about the technical concerns the relationship between technology andpeople themselves, but also poke a hidden technology behind the appearance of the capitalistsystem; Not only lies in the profound critique on the use of the technology of irrational, paymore attention to build a reasonable social system in order to solve the ecological problems.Ecology marxism theory thinks that technology plays the role in the human society is the keyto application of the social system and values carried by the orientation. In anthropocentricconcepts under the influence of the capitalist nature of the decision from the economic crisishas been dispersed throughout the social field, low-cost high-yield "production logic" directlydetermines the level of technological development, technology becomes greedy grab naturalcapital accomplice, suffered an unprecedented ecological damage."Control nature" slogan tomodern science and technology and ecological deterioration is more closely linked, this isprecisely the original way of life of the human denial and lost.This distorted the human social system inevitably from the nature of existence valuesreturn to the road reconstruction. Therefore, to solve the irrational use due to technicalecological crisis will lead to a reasonable demand from reconstruction scale, establish arational social system and realize the sustainable development of man and nature, three levelsof technology people use refactoring and rationalization society relations, and expand theecological significance of Marxist critique new topic domains.