Three-Dimensional Thinking Towards Liberation

Since the mid-twentieth century,when man is being immersed in the extreme substance satisfaction and enjoyment from science and technology, the living environment deterioration of human existence has intensified; the ecological environment is suffering unprecedented damage and human existence facing life and death crisis has become the second great crisis following the economic crisis. Severe ecological problems warn man: if not promptly and effectively curb or eliminate the ecological crisis,it not only endangers the survival and development of the whole of nature,but also endangers the survival and development of human society. Leiss’ s had a deep insight into the seriousness of the ecological crisis for man and he thought such a big crisis was due to the human concept of "dominate nature"; fueled by the capitalist system,it irrationally encouraged the irrational desires of "obey nature"; capital logic’s dual control of "dominate nature" and "obey nature" results in the whole space of human existence blocked by greed; space solidification blocks the development of human society,and the modern rational logic controls both man and nature. So double repression of man and nature cause global ecological problems today. In the two works; "The domination of Nature" and "The Limits to Satisfaction",Leiss openly and unambiguously advocated using Marxism to examine green theory critically,and aimed to combine Marxism and ecology. While it emphasized the inheritance of Marx’s theory of alienation,trying to criticize capitalist alienation consumer,and advocated natural liberation; on the other hand,it focused on the concept of ecological Marxism mode,and clearly advanced the ecological Marxist ideas about politics,economic,social life,ideology,future society conception and so on.This paper takes Leiss’ s ecological Marxism as the study target,takes "The domination of Nature" and "The Limits to Satisfaction" as text based,takes the relevant domestic and foreign theoretical circle’s research on Leiss’ s ecological Marxism as thought reference,takes Leiss’ s logical architecture of ecology thought as the perspective,takes the exploration of the root causes of the ecological crisis and the solution path as study starting point and destination,takes moving towards the double liberation of man and nature as an entry point; it has an in-depth analysis of the ecology thought of Leiss. Through the intrinsic link and logical relationship among the three key words "dominate nature", "obey nature" and "liberate nature", it has an in-depth analysis of its ecological ideological logic and logical architecture from the vertical,horizontal and staggered levels. It grasps new perspective and new ideas on its original causes and solution paths of the ecological crisis on the whole,trying to reveal the nature of Leiss’ s critical ecological Marxism,and striving to explore the new insights and new wisdom behind his thought which is conducive to solving the ecological crisis problem. Therefore,this article launches the discussion from the following three questions:The first part is to examine Leiss’ s ecology from “dominate nature " and reveal its longitudinal logical dimension to the roots of ecological crisis investigation. Leiss took "domination" as the main line and thought the increase of human domination over nature not to transfer or weak human domination; on the contrary,to increase the domination over people. The domination over from nature to people is achieved by scientific and technological means. The ideas of dominating nature is the deepest root causes of ecological crisis,and this plays an ideological role in leading to ecological crisis intensified.The second part is to examine Leiss’ s ecology from “obey nature " and reveal its horizontal logical dimension to the roots of ecological crisis investigation. Leiss took "needs" as the main line and thought commodity production and satisfying the needs are inextricably linked. The capitalist commodity production is in the pursuit of profit for the purpose; in order to get rationality of maximizing profit under the guise of satisfied the natural needs of people on the grounds,it twists human real needs and leads human real needs to false needs. Overproduction and alienation consumption result in a tremendous waste of natural resources. When it leads to natural alienation,it also leads to human alienation and the alienation of relationship between man and nature.The third part is to examine Leiss’ s ecology from “liberate nature " and reveal its space logical dimension to the roots of ecological crisis investigation. Leiss took "liberation" as the main line and thought if we wanted to solve the ecological crisis,we had to expand the regulatory function of the capitalist countries from ethic,politic,economy,culture and other multi-levels,adjust the relationship between man and nature,change people’s current consumption patterns,reduce capitalist production capacity and implement a new kind of "steady economy" to achieve a new view of development.Finally,the conclusion has an overall evaluation from positive and limiting aspects to Leiss’ s ecological thought. It reveals the value of ecological thought and practical significance,and it wants to provide the correct theoretical reference and thought inspiration to solve ecological crisis at the basic of grasping ecological thought of Leiss wholly and fundamentally.