Research On Ted Benton’s Ecological Marxist Thought

Ted Benton’s Ecological Marxist Thought has its background and theoretical origins.The global ecological crisis,the rise of the ecological movement and the green movement provided an opportunity for its generation;Marxism’s exposition on the dialectical relationship between man and nature,Althusser’s structuralist Marxism and the Frankfurt school’s ecological critical theory came into being.Provide theoretical soil.Critically constructing historical materialism,discussing key issues of Eco-centrism,and advocating the combination of Eco-autonomism and Eco-centrism are the core concepts of Ted Benton’s Ecological Marxist Thought.Among them,when Ted Benton critically constructed historical materialism,he first discussed the relevance of historical materialism and ecological issues,and then explained the ecological void of historical materialism and based on this,Proposed green historical materialism;whether to recognize that nature has i-ts limits,and whether humans should transform or adapt to nature when facing nature is the fundamental criterion for distinguishing between Eco-centrism and anthropocentrism.Ted Benton stated the position of his Eco-centrism,that Marxism ignored the limits of nature and believed that humans should adapt to nature rather than transform nature;Ted Benton advocated the combination of Eco-centrism and socialism.By examining the traditional anthropocentrism social system,it explains the importance of Ecocentric socialism,opposes David Pepper and other anthropocentrists to make radical changes in society,and hopes to gradually adopt a "moderate image foretelling method" To enter a green society.Ted Benton’s ecological Marxism has its theoretical contributions and limitations.It enriches and develops ecological Marxism and enlightens us to establish a correct view of technology and nature.At the same time,it has the color of ecological romanticism.The tendency of anti-industrialization,and lack of practicality.The innovation of this research is to start with the Ted Benton’s Ecological Marxist Thought,the representative of British ecological Marxism,which is rarely studied by domestic Marxist philosophy researchers,which helps to expand the research horizon of ecological Marxism.However,due to the rush of time and my limited level,the thesis is inevitably improper.