Ecological Socialism And Its Enlightenment To The Construction Of "Two - Oriented" Society

After the Second World War, with the serious ecological crisis and environmental pollution the western advanced capitalist countries achieved high speed economic growth. In the background, the people launched all kinds of environmental movements. At the same time, eco-socialism was born from the combination of the movements and socialism and it brought a new era of ecological and environmental protection.Making Marxism for reference, eco-socialism pointed out that the capitalist system was the root of ecological crisis and environmental pollution and it criticized the economy, politics, culture, society and technology of capitalism. At the same time, eco-socialism raised a series of views and theory to face the ecological and environmental crisis and the way to change capitalism. And the purpose of these was to take the way to green and ecological socialism and achieve sustainable development.In the more than30years after reform and opening up, with the scarcity of resources and serious ecological and environmental problems, China achieved high speed economic growth. In this background, the party and government proposed the strategy of constructing "two-oriented" society. As one of western socialism trends facing ecological and environmental crisis, eco-socialism has many internal consistencies with "two-oriented" society. And it has lots of brilliant and innovative theory and thoughts which could provide important enlightenments for the construction of "two-oriented" society.