The Research On Grundmann’s Ecological Marxism Thought

Reiner Grundmann is a famous German ecological Marxist contemporarily.As Marxism was condemned for lacking of ecological concern and historical materialism was regarded as “productivism” in the1990 s,the ecocentrism camp under the leadership of Benton criticized Marx was the man of anthropocentrism,advocated reconstructing historical materialism to make the naturalism regain its position.Face to various heckling of the ecocentrism camp,Grundmann re-interpret Marx’s historical materialism from the view of modern ecology.He denies anthropocentrism in any form,proposing returning to Marx’s anthropocentrism.From this point,he give the thought of “control nature” a positive interpretation.What all he does has powerfully retorted the view that the Marxism lacks of ecological concern,clarified misunderstandings about “anthropocentrism” and the thought of “control nature” in academic world.His thoughts not only broadened the marxism’s research field,more enriched the content of marxism ecological philosophy,is innovative and contemporaneous.Our construction of ecological civilization regard marxism as the guiding ideology at present,Grundmann’s ecological marxism is very important for construction of ecological civilization in our country.This article contains three parts.The first part,System combing the realistic background and the theoretical source of the Grundmann’s ecological Marxism thought.From the outbreak of the global ecological crisis to the vigorous development of the western ecological movement,this is the most realistic background of the Grundmann’s ecological Marxism thought.The man and the natural relations thought of marxism theory and the discuss about the cause of ecological crisis for early ecological Marxism,This are theoretical sourcesform of the Grundmann’s ecological Marxism thought.The second part,analizing the main content of the Grundmann’secological Marxism thought in depth.The first is the discussion of the causes of ecological problems in the framework of historical materialism.The second is the interpretation of "anthropocentrism" by Grundmann,who emphasizes the dominant position of human beings and advocates the evaluation of ecological problems from the overall interests and long-term interests of mankind.Finally,Mr Grundman reinterprets the idea of "control nature" from the three parties.The third part,the value and limitation of the Grundmann’s ecological Marxism thought are evaluated objectively.Its value lies in developing the theory of historical materialism field of vision,to defend the human’s main status,contradicted the lack of ecological implication of marxism,the main limitations is he focus on mining ecological value of Marx’s historical materialism and ignores the ecological criticism of the capitalist system.At the same time,the author gives the contemporary enlightenment of the Grundmann’s ecological Marxism thought,the construction of ecological civilization in China should adhere to the harmony between man and nature,adhere to the concept of ecological environment,and adhere to the development of ecological technology.