A Comparative Study Between O’Connor And Foster Ecological Marxist

Since the 20 th century, with the rapid development of science and technology, the process of industrialization is accelerating, ecological problems has begun to spread from the developed capitalist countries to more countries and regions, gradually raised from regional environmental pollution to global environmental problems and ecological crisis. Ecological crisis, not just the deteriorating environment for human survival, but also a social crisis related to social, political, and institutional structures. Faced with increasingly serious ecological problems, many scholars conducted deeply study about ecological issues from different theoretical directions and put forward many valuable views. Ecological Marxism in the ideological trend of Western ecology is unique, showing a strong development and both domestic and foreign academic pay attention to it. The most famous are O’Connor and Foster Ecological Marxism.In this paper, O’Connor and Foster criticized the anti-ecological nature of capitalist economy, politics and cultural, compared O’Connor Ecological Marxism with Foster, profound analyzed the similarities and differences between O’Connor and Foster Ecological Marxist ideology and its positive effects on social development.O’Connor reinterpreted the concept of production conditions, presented the Second Contradiction Theory of capitalism, emphasized the link between capitalist production conditions and ecological crisis; From Marx’s material transformation, Foster argued that the crack of material transformation under capitalism, leading to ecological crisis. O’Connor and Foster Ecological Marxist theory exist differences, but there are also similarities. This paper argues that O’Connor and Foster Ecological Marxism blend of great possibility, through the analysis of valuable insights and defects in their theories, affirming their value rationality, Learn from each other and integration, and forming ecological thought that has a positive reference to ecological construction in China.A comparative study of O’Connor and Forster Ecology Marxist thought are of great significance regardless of in theory and practice. On the one hand, it expands the capitalism space and critical field of materialism; On the other hand, it provides reference for the construction of ecological civilization and the construction of socialist harmonious society in China, thus lays the foundation for the sustainable development of the ecology.