On O'Connor's "Ecological Crisis Theory"

O'Connor restructures the theory of historical materialism, which by introducing "the culture" and "the nature" into, and forms his ecology Marxism, which as the philosophical basis of his "ecological crisis theory". In O'Connor's eyes, the ecological crisis is scientific and also is ideological category; The capitalist system not only has the economic crisis but also has the ecological crisis, the two kind of crisis coexisting and interacting; The nature of capital constantly pursuing profit is bound to lead to the capitalist economic crisis; capital accumulation, capitalism's production and consumption technology, uneven and combined development inevitably creates the global ecological crisis; The capitalist system itself decides that it is unable to save the crisis, and the ecological socialism is the only way to overcome the ecological crisis. O'Connor's "ecological crisis theory" is the product of the union between Marxism and the contemporary West environment movement, and is the Marxism recent development in the contemporary West world.