Ecological Marxist Critique Of Consumerism

With the highly development of economy, the progress of science and technology, in the capitalist countries, people’s consumption style also has a great change, the prevalence of consumerism that consumption has changed, from a kind of meet the basic needs of human life and became a people’s pursuit of goals, consumption as a means, and gradually become a kind of the opposite of alien force with the essence of man.Ecology Marxism is one of the schools of western Marxism, and gradually become the most influential in the contemporary western Marxism in the ideological trend, ecological study Marxism is complex in a capitalist society contradiction and ecological environment problem increasingly serious situation,mainlyinclude:Leiss,Agger,Gorz,O’Connor,Foster,Pepper,Burkett,YanZuoMao and so on. They are under the capitalist system "dissimilation consumption" has carried on the profound analysis and criticism, points out that the dissimilation consumption brought about by the destruction of environment and ecology crisis, and hope that through their own efforts to discard the consumption alienation, explore ways to solve the ecological crisis.In this paper, starting from the perspective of ecology Marxism, carried on the thorough analysis and research of consumerism, the full text is divided into four chapters, the first chapter is social consequences and ecological consequences of consumption alienation, the second chapter is the analysis of the genesis of consumerism, the third chapter is ecology Marxism theorist of consumption alienation theory generalization of critical thought, the fourth chapter to get rid of the way of consumption.Hope through to the ecology Marxism on the research of the critique of consumerism to understand the social development of contemporary capitalism,and hope to find the crisis of capitalism new changes and characteristics of the criticism of the capitalism for us to provide new realm, also to the health of the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics and rational consumption system for reference.