An Inquiry Into Lenin's Ecological Thoughts

The current society has entered a new historical stage of development, in which not only the progress of science and technology can basically meet people's material needs, but social productivity has already achieved a great leap. However, when people are intoxicated with the achievements gained from the transformation of nature, ecological problems have been increasingly influencing human's survival and development, resulting in crisis in people's living environment. Karl Marx emphasizes that if we human ignore the protection of the natural environment and maximize our own interests at the cost of destroying the natural environment and consuming natural resources excessively, the conflict between man and nature will be intensified. Confronted with the serious ecological problems, Lenin's ecological thoughts are relatively the appropriate one for our reference when checking over the ancient and modern thoughts because Lenin's ecological thoughts are formed after the victory of the Russian revolution and in the process of social construction. The social system and environment Lenin is in share some similarities with contemporary China. As a result, studying Lenin's ecological thought will be of a beneficial guidance for people's thinking about ecological problems and development in nature.In order to further study Lenin's ecological thoughts, this paper, for one thing, employs the methodology for the study of the development history of Marxism, analyzes particularly from the origins of Lenin's ecological theory to the birth of it and clears up systematically the contents of this theory. Starting from the textbook, this paper collates Lenin's ecological thoughts; drawing theoretical nutrients from materialism's view of nature, this paper discriminates particularly the correct standards of behavior for people in nature and the methods to harmonize the relationship between human and nature. For another, the research priority of this paper is to apply Lenin's ecological thoughts to China's ecological civilization construction. Lenin's ecological thoughts are formed under Soviet Russia's specific national conditions and are the first to combine Marx's ecological thoughts with socialist construction. During the revolutionary period, Lenin uses his own view of nature in the struggle against bourgeois. He not only analyzes how the bourgeois destroy natural environment in the period of imperialism but also directs people to fight for resources possession against bourgeois. And the stage is the crucial time of Lenin's ecological thoughts transformation from theory to practice. After winning the revolution, Lenin puts forward some unique solutions that differ from the bourgeois' when confronted with some ecological problems such as resources underexploitation, inadequate ecological protection, insufficient utilization of capital goods, and so on, in the epoch of socialism construction, which offer significant enlightenment for China's ecological construction.This paper gives out the development process of Lenin's ecological thoughts and analyzes systematically his thoughts, offering up theoretical power for China's ecological civilization construction. The whole paper is divided into five parts. The first chapter explores the origins and background of Lenin's ecological thoughts. Under the horizon of Marxist historical view, it combs Lenin's ecological thoughts systematically. Chapter two delineates the ecological thoughts in Lenin's materialism. View of nature is the basis of the entire ecological thoughts, builds a fundamental criterion for Lenin's ecological thoughts and brings about better theoretical methods for solving ecological problems. The third part concentrates on Lenin's ecological thoughts in the crisis of capitalism, highlighting Lenin's ecological thoughts implied in his criticism on crisis of capitalism. Chapter four illustrates Lenin's ecological thoughts in socialist construction. It discusses how he employs his ideas of socialist construction to solve ecological problems. The fifth chapter expounds the historic development and contemporary value of Lenin's ecological thoughts. At first, it deals with the former Soviet Union's development of Lenin's theory. And then, it analyzes the development and innovation that China's leaders have done for Lenin's ecological thoughts. Finally is its enlightenment for China's ecological civilization development.The innovation of this paper is its complete argumentation of Lenin's ecological thoughts. From the theoretical origins of Lenin's ecological thoughts to its main contents, from Lenin's ecological thoughts' influence on China's ecological construction to putting theory into practice, this paper displays the entire development paradigm of Lenin's ecological thoughts. In the meanwhile, interpreting Lenin's ecological thoughts under the background of the Soviet Russian's revolution and construction endows the ecological thoughts with the double meaning of both theory and practice. These are all examples of the scientificity and modernity of Lenin's ecological thoughts, provide theoretical reference for contemporary China's ecological problems, contribute to the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics and devote its own power to the realization of building a well-off society in an all-around way.