A Commentary On Ben Agel's Ecological Marxism

"Ecological Marxism" emerged in the large-scale green ecological movement in the 1960 s and 1970 s in the West.It is a new branch school of Western Marxism.Western Marxist scholars realize that the world is facing serious ecological crisis problems,and have put forward their own opinions and measures on ecological crisis.They want to change the ecological environment by changing the ecological environment Life and Marxism theory combined to solve the ecological crisis.Ben Agger is an important representative of ecological Marxism,and his theory is a great development of ecological Marxism.The emergence of Ben Agger ecological Marxism is based on the serious ecological crisis faced by the capitalist society today,and also absorbs the humanism thought,social criticism theory and the influence of Postmodernism of Frankfurt school to construct ecological Marxism.He has penetrated the dialectic analysis of Marx,deeply analyzed the alienation of consumption in capitalist society.Agger thought that consumption alienation was the most direct reason for ecological crisis.Therefore,he further derived the criticism of consumption alienation on the basis of inheriting Marx's alienation labor theory.He criticized the expansion of the developed industrial society and the reproduction brought to people Endless desire makes more and more people immersed in a illusion of false needs,which leads to the ecological crisis of the whole capitalist society becoming more and more serious.Agger also analyzes that this dissimilation consumption has made the proletariat lose revolutionary will,so the violent revolution Marx expected could not occur.On this basis,the capitalist birth was launched State criticizes in crisis.Hegel thinks that capitalist society has changed from economic crisis to ecological crisis.He criticizes Marx 'theory of crisis about capitalist society,and thinks that the crisis theory proposed by Marx has been invalid and is not applicable to contemporary capitalist society.Agger then proposed the solution to the ecological crisis,which is to hope that people will awaken their thoughts and implement a small-scale production technology.Agger conceived a non violent change method,which is to establish an ecological socialist society running in the steady economic model.He criticized the current economic model is relative to the values of human and nature,and The mode of large industrial production also causes extreme exploitation and waste of resources.Therefore,this mode needs to be changed by a decentralized small-scale technology.For the realization of this social model,agger advocates that Marxism and populism can be combined.This method of change has a kind of utopian nature,which makes the construction of ecological socialist mode also have a kind of Utopia The color of the utopia.It is undeniable that Hegel's thought not only inherits and develops Marxism,but also improves the criticism of capitalist system.It connects the preceding and the next,and embodies the characteristics of ecological Marxism school based on reality and advancing with the times.Moreover,the ecological crisis advocated by Hegel has indeed sounded a warning bell for people.It is not only developed capitalist countries,but also the developing countries should attach great importance to this problem.Therefore,Hegel's thought has both theoretical inspiration and practical guidance,especially for the construction of modern ecological civilization system in China.