A Study To The Theory Of David Pepper’s Ecological Socialism

With the increasingly serious ecological environment,"ecological socialism" in the late20th century as a branch of the Socialist rise to a new genre of thought. Eco-socialism hasgone three stages, namely, the "red green","red-green blend" and "green reddening." Pepperis the third stage of theoretical ideas for ecological socialism.He put forward byrepresentatives, although not perfect, but the development of ecological socialism has playeda certain role in promoting our country socialism and also provides an important basis for theecological civilization.In this paper, to use the method of literature analysis, comprehensive analysis andcomparison.The ecological socialism ideas of Pepper were discussed:The first part analyzes the historical background of socialist ecological theory proposedby Pepper, Pepper generate theories and academic research steering. The second part of themain contents of the theory of socialism Pepper ecological research. First, Pepper believesthe capitalist system of production is causing serious environmental pollution and even lead tothe root causes of the ecological crisis, but also led to social injustice. Secondly, Pepperprofound criticism of ecological centrism that environmental problems can be solved byinsisting anthropocentric. Again, Pepper by taking more radical change course to achieve theultimate " social change." Finally, Pepper were two aspects of the economic and politicalfuture of ecological socialist society be conceived. The third part is based on the theoreticalvalue and theoretical limitations of the theory of socialism ecological Pepper made theappropriate evaluation and elaborated the theory of inspiration to build ecological civilizationin China. Pepper ’s social theory is to inherit and carry forward the ecological ecology Marxisttheory, some of the theoretical results he achieved in the process of construction of ecologicalcivilization has certain significance.