The Study On Jonathan Hughes’ Ecological Productivity

Since human society entered the capitalist society,to understand nature,transform nature and make use of nature for the benefit of mankind has become the value goal of social,economic,political and cultural development,and has increasingly become the core of modernity.The problem of modernity always entangled with the relationship between man and nature,relationship between man and society,forming modernity conspiracy.Marx once said that every progress of human civilization would be developing with major event and change.Ecological crisis can be said to be one of the major events.Why is ecological crisis a major crisis since the rapid development of capitalist society,what impact it will have on social development,why it is tightly entangled in the relationship between man and nature,what kind of complex relationship between ecological crisis and science and technology,and even combine ecological crisis with productivity to question the capitalist system,It has become a series of key issues for Western Ecological Marxism to study and judge the ecological crisis of contemporary capitalism.As a representative of Western Marxist scholars,Hughes put forward the unique thought of ecological productivity in the research and judgment of ecological Marxism on the above problems.Hughes takes ecological productivity as the core concept,takes the excavation and vigorous protection of Marx’s ecological thought of historical materialism as the basic principle,takes the ideological resources of ecological Marxists as the ideological support,takes the productivity situation of grasping the development of capitalist society to a certain extent as the theoretical basis,and takes the in-depth analysis of the relationship between man and nature,between man and ecology,and between man and social needs as the ideological content,Strive to expose and criticize the causes and current characteristics of the capitalist ecological crisis.Hughes’ research on ecological crisis has theoretical significance and practical value.Based on this,this paper takes Jonathan Hughes’ s representative work “Ecological and Historical Materialism”as theoretical basis,takes the reflection of domestic theoretical circles on Hughes’ s ecological productivity thought as the theoretical dependence,takes the excavation,interpretation and reconstruction of Marx’s historical materialism ecological thought as the ideological premise,and takes the theoretical clarification of Hughes’ s ecological productivity thought as the critical object,In order to realize the systematic and holistic research on Hughes’ s ecological productivity thought,theoretical essence,main framework,ideological characteristics and value purport,and make a historical,contemporary and realistic scientific judgment on it based on the basic position,viewpoint and method of Marx’s historical materialism.Establishing the ideological viewpoint of "ecological productivity" as the core topic of Hughes’ ideological research,as a major issue of his ecological Marxist thought,Hughes emphasized in ecological and historical materialism that in the discussion set of Marx’s historical materialism on productivity thought,in terms of productivity development and its causes,this can be understood as an explanation of ecological problems and the relationship between man and nature.The realistic crisis relationship between capitalist productivity and natural ecology shows that we should "guide the development of productivity in a direction conducive to ecology".It can be seen that "ecological productivity" is an important plan for the construction in the direction conducive to environmental protection,"ecological productivity" is a realistic scheme to maintain the sustainable development and harmonious symbiosis between man and nature in a benign interactive way,"ecological productivity" is a living force to effectively deal with the relationship between man and society and continuously realize man’s comprehensive needs.Therefore,Hughes insists in his text that historical materialism will not talk about the development of productive forces without nature,and the law of social and historical development without the reconciliation and dialectical relationship between man and nature,while Marx’s historical materialism will not have the meaning of ecological thought,which constitutes the ideological essence of Hughes’ s ecological thought excavation and maintenance of Marx’s historical materialism.Hughes stressed that starting from nature as the survival basis of human beings,he analyzed the relationship between nature,society,science and technology,productivity and ecological crisis from the standpoint of anthropocentrism,and,under the guidance of the methodology of historical materialism,opposed and restored the ecological behavior with the paradigm of holism,highlighting the importance of social structure choice for the benign interactive development of productivity to overcome the ecological crisis,It is the core content of the thought of ecological productivity.The spreading of Hughes’ core thought of ecological productivity is inseparable from the historical combing and ideological grasp of his ideological resources,which is the research basis and theoretical premise of Hughes’ thought of ecological productivity.From the ideological and historical resources Hughes needs to grasp and control,we can clearly examine the Ideological Track of Marxist historical materialism,the ideological inheritance of Western Marxism and Western Ecological Marxism,and analyze the ideological methods of Marxism,so as to carefully define anthropocentrism and natural centrism,clarify and interpret the causes of ecological crisis in various theories,In the current frequent occurrence of ecological crisis,we should think about and reveal the realistic motivation,institutional mechanism and solutions of ecological crisis.Hughes’ analysis of need theory is an important breakthrough in solving the problem of ecological crisis,dealing with the relationship between man and nature,and revealing the path of man’s all-round development.Hughes started from the need theory and entered the construction of ecological productivity.In the construction of ecological development and benign interaction of productivity,he freed people from the alienated survival situation of capitalism,reduced people’s false needs to practical concerns,found the possibility of ideal needs in the rationality of practical needs,and rebuilt people’s reasonable needs in the ideal form of Communist ecological productivity development and ecological society,Lead people’s needs to the reasonable destination of people’s all-round development.Hughes’ thought of ecological productivity not only has significant theoretical innovation,but also has ideological and theoretical space worthy of improvement.In his thought,the excavation and protection of Marx’s historical materialism ecological thought and the self subjective interpretation and Misreading contained therein are all present,the exposure,criticism and display of the ecological crisis caused by the capitalist system and the external criticism of the implicit formalism,rather than the criticism in the essential sense,The moral hypothesis of Communist society and the understanding of Marxist Communist social theory and what is the real ecological socialism and what is the real Marxist scientific socialism are ambiguous.In a word,in the face of the profound changes unseen in a century,there are almost all kinds of critical problems in the contemporary world.For us to accurately grasp the new characteristics of the development and change of contemporary capitalism,grasp the new trend of the development and change of contemporary capitalism,and provide ideological reference,theoretical mirror and practical comparison in the construction of socialist ecological civilization with Chinese characteristics.