Research On Foster's Capitalist Ecological Criticism Theory

With the progress of industrial civilization and the rapid development of capitalist economy,people's material life has been greatly enriched.The development of industrial civilization is based on the logic of capital accumulation.However,there is a sharp confliction and opposition between the logic of unlimited expansion of capital accumulation and the scarcity of natural resources and the limitation of environmental carrying capacity.It is the infinite expansion logic of capital accumulation that destroys the foundation of human survival and development-nature,which leads to severe ecological crises such as energy shortage,climate warming,species extinction and environmental pollution.Faced with the deteriorating ecological environment,people began to realize the severity of the ecological environment and explore solutions to the ecological dilemma.Eco-Marxist gradually attracted people's attention,which provided a new theoretical basis for solving the current ecological crisis.John Bellamy Foster,as a rising star in the field of western ecological Marxist research,explored the ecological implication of Marx's thought from his own unique perspective by interpreting Marx's texts,reconstructed Marx's "metabolic breakdown" theory,and deeply analyzed the root causes of ecological crisis under the capitalist system.He has found the solution and formed its ecological thought with Marxist characteristics.Foster pointed out that in order to completely eliminate the ecological crisis,we must start with the analysis of its root causes,and the root of the ecological crisis is the capitalist system and its mode of production,so the elimination of the capitalist system has become the key to solve the problem.The first chapter mainly introduces the background and theoretical source of Foster's ecological critique theory of capitalism.The second chapter is the main content of Foster's ecological critique of capitalism.Through the analysis of the causes of the ecological crisis of capitalism,Foster points out that the essence of the anti-ecological capitalism system lies in the capitalist system,and the root of the ecological crisis lies in the capitalist system.The use of production methods and technologies under the system further aggravates the ecological crisis,and the act of ecological imperialism has led to the spread of the ecological crisis to the whole world.The third chapter is the discussion of the solution to the ecological crisis.Foster criticized that natural capitalization proposed by the mainstream economists can not solve the ecological crisis.It is impossible to solve the ecological crisis thoroughly under the capitalist system.Only through the system reform and the establishment of socialist system can we completely eliminate the ecological crisis.The latter chapter is the evaluation of Foster's ecological critical theory and its enlightenment to the construction of ecological civilization in China.A thorough study of Foster's theory of ecological criticism of capitalism can help us to understand the essence of ecological crisis caused by capitalist system,adhere to and develop Marxism and strengthen socialist system.Foster's ecological critical theory provides us a certain significance for solving the ecological environment problems faced by our country in the process of modernization and the construction of socialist ecological civilization with Chinese characteristics.