William Leiss Ecological Marxism Theory Of Needs

Since the industrial revolution, rapid technological innovation and product typeand quantity of explosive growth, human society enters into the consumer era.Consumption of traditional human society between the spiritual and material relationshave drastically changed. Today within the scope of capitalist society, the prevalenceof consumerism, money worship and hedonism flooded with thoughts. Globalization,all sorts of undesirable social phenomena triggered a chain reaction, but also to Chinacaused a lot of problems, and the impact on the ecological environment is one of themost direct, but also the most destructive. William Leiss theory we need to open up anew idea from the ecological theory of alienation and ecological needs of the need tocombine.On the basis of analysis of the research results of domestic and foreign scholarsWilliam Leiss Ecological Marxism theory on needs, understand the current theory ofLeiss researchers need less, but just a simple statement of the theory, therefore, I thinkLeiss needs theory is necessary to carry out further research. In this paper, thetheoretical background needed from Leiss and ideological sources of the era startingin clarifying its theoretical system, based on the logical sort, needs theory put forwardthe main points: the plight of human needs, because the plight generated need toinfluence the plight of the need dilemma solution. Finally, Leiss conducted anobjective assessment of needs theory, with emphasis on the theory of enlightenmentdiscourse of contemporary China.At present, China is facing many problems in the process of modernization,ecological issues and consumer issues are particularly prominent. Leiss needs todifficulties as a starting point for us to show the individual, society and nature in threedimensions requires contradictory dilemma, relying on its unique theoreticalframework and scientific dialectical reasoning provides a very important researchideas for us and research methods. Through innovation of this paper is on thesystematic study of Leiss needs theory, Analysis of Leiss needs and limitations of theessence of the theory, to find a meeting point with China's national conditions, toprovide a theoretical reference for the Chinese consumer issues and solving ecologicalproblems.