The Ecological Critique Of Consumerism And Practical Enlightenment

The Consumerism is spreading in our world. It has aroused great attention. EarlyWestern Marxists have analysis and critique, which include substance ofconsumerism, reason of consumerism and consequences of consumerism. TheEcological Marxism inherited the traditions and achievements of Early WesternMarxist critique of consumerism. In the attention and thinking of capitalist ecologicalenvironment, the Ecological Marxism put consumer issues in their research to showconsumerism anti-ecological. It opens the perspective of ecological critique ofconsumerism. The Ecological Marxism think alienated consumption is the culprit ofecological crisis. They think only production area have some changes, we can removethe alienated consumption. Such as small-scale production, decentralized production,steady-state economy and Ecological rationality.The Ecological Marxism is good at ecological critique of capitalist, but all oftheir solutions have Utopia. So, we only return to Marxism to find real solutions. Thealienated labor theory, the relationship between man and nature theory andcomprehensive human development theory will solve all of problems finally.We should understand limitation of Ecological Marxism clearly, and agree theirpositive significance. The Ecological Marxism provides basis of theory for buildingan ecological civilization. It will make us to change our consumption attitude, andadvocate green consumption, low-carbon economy and low-carbon lifestyle.