Research On Ben Agger's Ecological Marxism Ideology

Since the 1960 s,industrial civilization has developed rapidly in capitalist countries,people have been greatly satisfied in terms of material conditions,and the ecological environment has been deteriorating day by day.Ecological problems have become a major problem restricting the development of human society.Using marxist philosophy to analyze ecological problems and social problems,ecological marxism,which tries to find a way to solve environmental problems and achieve the all-round development of human beings,came into being.Ben Agger is praised by many scholars as the first ecological marxist.He first proposed the concept of "ecological marxism" in his 1979 book western marxist concepts,which ecological marxists regarded as the symbol of the emergence of this theory.Ben Agger's ecological marxism was born in the context of the global ecological crisis,the vigorous rise of the green movement and the reflection on the Soviet model of socialism.In the process of development,it has been deeply influenced by Marx's theory of the relationship between man and nature,the theory of ecological crisis of the Frankfurt school and the theoretical achievements related to ecology,which has the characteristics of interdisciplinary theory.Ben Agger criticizes the capitalist system from the phenomenon of alienated consumption and points out that the capitalist system is the root of the ecological crisis.With the development of productivity,the fundamental contradiction of capitalism has not been solved largely because the ecological crisis has gradually replaced the economic crisis,and the crisis has shifted from the production sector to the consumption sector.The social transformation mode of "the dialectic of broken expectations" makes people see the strong driving force for carrying out the socialist transformation,hoping not only to solve the ecological crisis through "the dialectic of broken expectations",but also to build ecological socialism through decentralized and non-bureaucratic production management system.Ben Agger's ecological marxism has a one-sided understanding of the contradictions of capitalism,holding that the contradictions between man and nature become the focus of the contradictions,overestimating the social change power of populism and the steady state economic model of "zero growth" has utopian nature,and the vision of the future society is too ideal.But for its from the ecological perspective to explore ideas,methods to solve the ecological crisis and the idea ofconstructing ecological socialism,has certain rationality,for the innovation of the marxist theory,establish a scientific and reasonable way of sustainable green consumption as well as to the construction of socialist ecological civilization with Chinese characteristics has important reference value.