Research On Foster’s Theory Of Metabolic Rift

Human survival mainly depends on the harmony between human being and nature.Since the industrial revolution, in order to promote rapid economic development, thecapitalist countries extracted the natural resources madly, while ignoring the protection ofnature. This situation makes the confrontation of man and nature unprecedentedintensification of ecological and environmental problems continue to emerge. Thesurvival of mankind is facing the challenge of the ecological crisis. In this context, thepeople all over world begin to pay attention to the study of ecological, the Americanscholar John Bellamy Foster Marx’s ecological thinking, re-interpretation of Marx classic,in-depth analysis of the ecological crisis and capitalist relations, and construction oftheory of metabolic rift to point out that the capitalist system is the cause of ecologicalcrisis.The dissertation consists of introduction, main body and conclusion. In theintroduction, there is a brief description of theoretical and practical significance of thisstudy, the research status, and the innovation of this paper. The subject consists of threeparts. The first part introduced the causes of Foster constructed theory of metabolic rift.Because in the capitalist society, the ecological crisis is worsening which attracted widespread attention. Some Western scholars hoped that the Soviet model and the greenmovement theory may solve the ecological crisis, but Foster research found that theydidn’t solve problem. Only based on Marx’s ecological ideology, in particular, usingMarx’s theory of metabolic rift can we find a method to solve the ecological crisis.The second part describes the emergence and development of the concept ofmetabolic. Foster pointed out that Marx came up with the concept of ecologicalsignificance. Foster Research found that the theory of metabolic rift is the center ofgravity of the ecological ideas of Marx, which revealed through the construction theoryof metabolic rift, because of the expansion of capitalism and naturally betweenmetabolic.in the crack, this rift is the root of the ecological crisis. Through the analysis ofthe writings of Marx, and understanding of theory of metabolic rift that today’s capitalistsociety, foster pointed out that the essence of metabolic rift is not only the alienation ofnature itself, but also including natural and social and relationship of alienation. Foster also pointed out that the way to solve the ecological crisis is to eliminate the alienation,and to unite the workers and ultimately toward a communist society. But Fosteremphasized on ecological issues as the core to much the "ecological crisis" over"economic crisis" to dilute the class contradictions of capitalism, ignoring the factors ofproduction in Marxist theory in the theory of Health, making Foster in resolving theecological crisis method on the lack of a practical basis.The third section describes the material transformation of the contemporary valueof the fracture theory. Foster stressed the harmony of society and nature. This suggeststhat modernization to achieve industrialization and ecological protection are bothsignificant.The evaluation system of ecological civilization and environmental reformpilot should be established, focusing on environmental protection publicity and citizens’environmental awareness. Conclusion summarized and extended the full text.