On The Building Principles And Methods Of Kovel’s Ecosocialism

Among in the representatives of the contemporary ecosocialist, American scholar Joel Kovel is the most famous. Facing with the deteriorating situation of the ecological crisis, growing conflict between human and nature, the society of human itself in the dilemma, Kovel draws on the fact that a large number of materials, introspecting the current problems and putting forward a revolutionary road of ecosocialism in particular way. Kove’s book The Enemy of Nature reflects fully his thoughts of ecosocialism.Kovel thinks that capital is anti-ecological in nature and the capitalist production is the growth of cancer. Therefore, capital and capitalism are not only the biggest enemy of nature, but also arch-criminal of the ecological crisis. Critically absorbing the reasonable factors of the green economics, the green philosophy and the First-epoch socialism, Kovel proposes the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment of ecosocialist society. He wants to solve the ecological crisis by the path of ecosocialism, which achieves the harmony between human and nature and keeps the integrity of ecosystems.Therefore, Kovel describes the building principles and methods of his ecosocialism in detail. First, Kovel elaborates the building principle of ecosocialism:namely, that adhering to the Commons, the usufructuary, the democracy, the supremacy of use-value, the ecocenteric production, and the social justice and environmental justice. Second, he discusses the methods to build ecosocialism, such as the "Red-Green alliance", the class struggle, the leadership of ecosocialism political party, the different strategies of struggle as well as the grass-roots democracy, which makes his thoughts of ecosocialism more specific and full.Kovel’s ecosocialism is not scientific socialism, and has a lot of Utopia ingredients which are limitations, but his thoughts of ecosocialism can’t be ignored to study by us. By using the Marxist angles, Kovel insists on analyzing and treating the problem of the imbalance between human and nature. Moreover, He enriches and develops the theory of Marxism from the ecological dimensions. Moreover, the reasonable compositions of the thoughts of Kovel’s ecosocialism are still the reference for the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics.