On Ben Agger's "Alienation Consumption" Theory

Agger's theory of "alienation consumption" is an attempt to analyze the problem of consumption with Marxist dialectics.Starting from Marx's Dialectics of "alienation theory,contradiction theory and crisis theory",Agger believes that the crisis of modern capitalist society has shifted from the field of production to the field of consumption.He believed that the capitalist contradiction would not lead to the economic crisis in a scientific necessity,but must start from the problem of consumption alienation to find the class radicalism consciousness of socialist transformation.From the perspective of consumption alienation,Agger realized the transformation of ecological crisis,pointing out that with the development of consumption alienation,people's expectation will be destroyed if they can't meet the unlimited supply of goods,and the dialectics of expectation destruction will lead people to produce new expectation and promote the socialist revolution.From the perspective of "alienation consumption",Agger constructs a complete set of ecological socialist revolutionary road.Here,he will find out the essence of the theory of alienated consumption by dismantling Marx's dialectics.The first chapter is the introduction part,through the review of the research status of alienation consumption at home and abroad,on the basis of the discussion of the theory of "alienation consumption" by various scholars,it is found that the logic of the formation of the theory is reasonable.The second chapter mainly studies the background,theoretical basis and internal logic of the theory of alienation consumption.In inheriting Marcuse's theory of dissimilated consumption,Agger changed Marx's dialectics from dissimilated labor to dissimilated consumption by replacing economic crisis with ecological crisis.The third chapter mainly discusses the main content of Agger's theory of "alienated consumption",and points out how"alienation consumption promotes the socialist revolution from the aspects of production,consequence and solution.The expansion of capitalist production regards consumption as the compensation of leisure time for the suffering of labor with the help of "labor leisure dualism".In fact,it is caused by capitalist system and takes the ruling form of ideological legitimacy.Agger pointed out that the fact that the alienated consumption cannot meet the needs will lead to the "Dialectics of disillusioned expectations",promote people to re-establish expectations,sublating the alienation consumption and thus promote the ecological socialist revolution.The fourth chapter is a comment on the value,limitation and Contemporary Enlightenment of Agger's theory of " alienation consumption".In the carding of the essence of Agger's theory of "alienation consumption",we should affirm its constructive consumption theory and critical theory,and deny its distorted and deviated contents from the original meaning of Marxism,so as to objectively obtain its beneficial revelation for the construction of China's consumption content.