Analyses On Foster's Ecological Critique To Capital Logic Under Marx's Horizon Of Capital Critique

Under the circumstances of economic globalization in which global production factors are flowing acceleratedly in the globe,ecological crisis has been worldwide“obvious problem”across the countries,the nations and beyond the ideologies.With regard to the source of ecological crisis,more and more scholars at home and abroad are paying close attentions.Among them,John Bellamy Foster,one of the most active flagship figures in the field of ecological Marxism at present,upholds the "capital logic origin theory",because he thinks capital logic built into the kernel of pursuing profit maximization constitutes economic roots of the ecology crisis in standing on the global view.For his argument with a clear-cut stand,academic circles at home and abroad,there are a lot of debates,including a lot of favorers and some skeptics.That there is different voices in academic circles,often can become an starting point where we could continue to research and deepen the cognition.As we all know,capital critique is the major theoretical work though Marx's own lifetime.Therefore,that we try to evaluate Foster 's ecological critique to capital logic under Marx's horizon of capital critique,is undoubtedly has a profound significance.Marx's critique of capital shows profound ecological insights,although ecological critique couldn't become a central task for all of Marx's and Marx's time.Marx carried out a deep ecological critique on capital “two rules”of utility and proliferation,“two compulsory logic” of production and consumption and objective“a kind of social power” with rich historical insights.Foster is seen as an important Marx's “followers”.As an important ecological Marxist scholars who has been exploring and reconstructing Marxist ecological thoughts,he possesses the strong feelings of socialism and sharp ecological critiques to the logic of capital,which has led to him showing a growing influence in the academic community.He has launched four heavy ecological critiques on capital logic directly.Firstly,natural capitalization is ecological myth of the limitlessness of thecapital proliferation logic,which means under the domination of capital logic,natural capitalization is a kind of “economic reductionism”,is the distorted form of commodity fetishism and brings about rifts of the metabolism between society and nature;Secondly,the return of “Jevons Paradox”marks a technology ecological phantom under the domination of capital logic,because the technology view that orthodox economists praise highly is still a typical economic rationality in accordance with logical capital proliferation,but not ecological rationality;Thirdly,with the return of “Lauderdale Paradox”,natural ecology as the largest public wealth would inevitably encounter the extrusion,because the increase of personal wealth always means decrease of the public wealth,and creating natural ecological scarcity to fit the proliferation of capital logic always becomes idiomatic means to increase private wealth,in which the end result is use value subordination to the exchange value;Fourthly,ecological imperialism is around the world,which essentially reflects ecological political strategy of the spatialization capital proliferation logic,for the pursuit of optimization of capital accumulation by robbing natural resources from developing country and transferring pollution to developing country all the same.In Marx's capital critique of ecological perspective to review Foster 's ecological critique to capital logic,the latter there exists positive theoretical contributions to the theory,but some theoretical limitations.Theoretical contributions include: mining and enriching metabolism theory in the Capital around the capital logic,mining ecological dimension of labor theory,that is to criticize who does not distinguish between“wealth” and “value”,expounding the ecological meanings of “treadmill” of capital accumulation's critique that is expansion of the principle of capital proliferation,contending social justice movement which should be combined with the ecological revolutions namely getting rid of domination of the capital to the “common freedom”.At the same time,there also exists theoretic limitations not to allow to ignore,including covering Marx's capital duality of historical role but solely locking ecological destructive of the capital,obscuring spatialization of Marx's capital logic but lonely aiming at the capitalist countries,and confusing Marx's path of getting rid of capital domination but excessively paying attention to ecological revolution.In thisregard of ecological critique to capital logic,“Examining Foster in Marx's view”,that is to say “a critique of critique”,we extract the theory contributions and theoretical limitations of the latter,which not only helps to enhance theoretical self-confidence of Marxism and evade“explaining Marx in the west”,but also to enhance the contemporaneity and inclusiveness of Marx's theory itself.According to “take the essence and discard the dregs” to understand Foster 's ecological critique to capital logic,we still could summarize up several helpful critical inspirations that is beneficial to our constructions of ecological civilization of socialism with Chinese characteristics.The inspirations are mainly embodied in the theoretical levels and practical levels.It must be said that the socialist practice with Chinese characteristics of ecological civilization construction have been enriching and expanding Foster 's thought of ecological critique to capital logic.we could conclude that “Chinese experiences” which advocates socialist ecological civilization have been beyond Foster in some ways,which mainly include: we advocating moderate development of natural capital instead of blindly eliminating the capital regardless of historical phases,the coordination of total layout of “Five in One” rather than excessively depending on ecological construction methods and advocating “unitary theory”between the ecological environment and productive forces development rather than a single supremacy of the ecological environment.This helps to avoid “explaining China in the west” simply without critical thinking in the process of researching western theories(including Foster 's ecological critique),and is beneficial to further uphold and develop“Three Confidences” of socialism with Chinese characteristics.