Marxist Ecological Consumption Thought And Its Contemporary Value

In an age of relatively low productivity and relative scarcity,economic and social life is the subject of production.When productivity to a certain level,social production of goods to meet basic needs,the vast majority of social members gradually rising consumption status in the social and economic life.The way that capital expansion has created consumerism,the social crisis has changed,and the ecological crisis has erupted around the world.The root of the crisis is the system of capitalism and the means of production,so it is impossible to solve the crisis without starting from the theoretical framework of capitalism.The idea of ecological consumption is based on the causes of consumerism and the appeal of ecologicalism.Ecological consumption is more comprehensive than green consumption and moderate consumption.The theory of ecological consumption of Marxism consists of three aspects: first,the consumption of alienation is anti-ecological.Marxist criticism of the capitalism,from production to consumption activities from political economy to ecological environment,and on this basis is pointed out that the production mode of capitalist unjust cause alienation labor,alienation labor production inevitably leads to alienation consumption alienation.Consumption alienation is people by the false intervention demand,in order to have more material goods and consumer behavior,long-term threat to human survival and sustainable development.Second,the relationship between production and consumption is to deal with the relationship between man and nature,and production and consumption should be based on respect for nature.Third,the development of human beings is a process that needs to be satisfied,and consumption should be balanced by the overall development of human beings,which requires the balance of material consumption and mental consumption.Marxist ecological consumption idea comes from the consumption theory of Marx and Engels ecological thought and western Marxist alienation consumption theory,has an important value.In the theoretical level,the Marxist ecological consumption idea is in the new historical background to the development of innovation,the expansion of the ethics and the transformation of happiness provides value basis.On a practical level,the Marxist ecological consumption idea is analyze the contemporary consumer guide,promote green transformation of the economic basis,is the value of the transformation of the mode of traditional life basis,is the theoretical basis to construct the new consumer culture.We must fully understand the Marxism theory,especially in economic theory,from the connotation of Marxist ecological view,spending,fully understand the thought of Marxist ecological consumption,to promote the construction of ecological civilization in China,the construction of ecological consumption culture to provide the theoretical guidance.