Reflection And Revelation Of Ben Agger’s Theory Of Ecological Crisis

Ben Agger is one of the most important representative figure of North America Marxism,he established the eco-marxism theory system based on the analysis of ecological crisis of modern capitalist society and the combination of classic marxism theory and ecology theory.To be sure,the theory of ecological crisis is the core part of Agger Eco-marxism theory.Agger believes that the modern crisis of capitalist society is no longer the economic crisis like Marx said,but turned into ecological crisis.Based on Marx’s theory of alienation labor,Agger thought that the essence of ecological crisis is the alienation of people,it is also showed by the opposition namely between people and things in the capitalist society.This opposition is rooted in the internal contradictions of capitalism system,but Agger believes that the internal contradictions has break away from the trajectory of marxist theory,and the internal contradictions of capitalism has come up between production process and ecological system.Because the alienation of modern capitalism society is transforming into alienation consumption from labor alienation,and the crisis is shifting from production field to consumption field.Inevitably the ecological crisis is the result of the alienation consumption.In order to dissolve the ecological crisis of capitalist society,Agger put forward the "dashed expectations of dialectics" on the basis of Marx’s dialectics,trying to overcome alienation consumption to complete the socialist transformation of capitalist.Specifically,the crisis solution of Agger’s theory including several measures like this:A steady economic growth mode;To carry out the production and living of ecological command;The production of diversification and the bureaucratic;Combination of marxism and populism.Agger’s theory of ecological crisis inherited some of the positive factor from marxism and the Frankfurt school,and them at the same time.It main shows that Agger’s theory surpass Marx’s theory of alienation,crisis theory and ideology theory;also surpass the technology control theory and technology alienation theory of Frankfurt school,meanwhile,Agger’s theory of ecological crisis is also with strong critical because of criticizing the predatory capitalism mode of production,bureaucracy and totalitarian political system,and the manipulated consumption culture.But Agger has no inheritance materialism,revolutionary characteristics ofMarxism theory,thus his theory of ecological crisis is incompleteness of revolution,no depth of root cause analysis,and not feasible on crisis solution.That is why we need to use an objective and fair look at Agger’s theory of ecological crisis.As a creative and adaptability western marxism theory,as long as we do not divorced from the actual characteristics of China’s ecological crisis,Agger’s theory of ecology crisis can provide us theoretical enlightenment and guidance on the practice in the progress of ecological civilization construction of socialism China.