The Research In Ecological Marxism Of John Foster

Ecological Marxism has been leading the theory of Social Criticism of Marxism into a very much broader area. It is not only improving the Ecological Marxism in theory, but also criticizes the Capitalism from the reality. As the remarkable representative in this area, John Bellamy Foster's Ecological Marxism Theory represents the top level and the last word of the Ecological Marxism thought in west that since twenty century 60s and 70s. He is not only sort out the Materialism and its history of Marxism again, re-constructs Marx's metabolism rift theory, but also reveals the capitalism's essential of anti-ecology. He extends the theory into the productive process of Capitalism and gives the way of solve the ecological crisis.This paper discusses the primary coverage of Foster's theory from the construction of Ecological Materialism, re-constructs the theory of Marx's metabolism rift, and criticizes the Capitalism from the way of ecology. Foster relates and analyzes the thought of ecology in Marxism from the both side of history and ecology, and emphasizes the dialectical relationship between the nature world and the human society; Foster also confirms the direct contribution of the metabolism rift theory in Marxism and its important status in modern age. As a result Foster on the basis of metabolism rift, explain the primary cause of the dissimilation between human beings and nature world which is the primitive accumulation and the profit-push of the early days in capitalistic production.The Ecological Marxism of Foster not only enriched the Marxism, but also provide scientific basis for social practice. Foster's thought came from the history but he did not limit to history, and he also did not cut off the relationship between the history and the reality. His theory provides the positive direction for creating the ecological socialism with chinese characteristics and make it widen. At the same time, Foster's theory is still in developing, although its has not with the Marxism in its entirety, and the solution of the ecological crisis is still sort of out of reality, Foster's Ecological Marxism is pointing the right way to the development of the society.