Research On Joel Cowell's Ecological Socialist Revolution Thought

Throughout the world,ecological problems have seriously threatened human survival and social sustainable development.Natural disasters such as global warming,the collapse of biodiversity,air and water pollution,land degradation,and the shrinking of tropical rain forests have been a wake-up call to the world.Cruel reality often brings about the collision of ideas and forms the new thinking.Capitalism is blamed by the western scholars who believe that eco--logical crisis is a foretaste of impending doom for capitalism.How to deal with the ecological crisis and how to get rid of the danger of capitalism becomes academic problems.Joel Kovel,an Ecological Marxist in North American,whose idea of ecological socialism revolution has conformed to the requirements of the times,closely bounded up with social reality,and provided positive guidance for the current social and economic development.Kovel inherited the critical spirit of marxism,illustrated the profit pursuit and anti-ecological nature of capital,demonstrated the internal relations of capitalism and the ecological crisis,and pointed out the act of ecological imperialism.Kovel also analyzed the ecological error in socialism which represented by Soviet.He thought socialism cannot overcome the penetration of capitalism and cope with the global influence of capitalist order.The best social formation is ecosocialism which is considered a huge ecological revolution.Because in his view,any modified ecosocialism is unworkable.It can only transfer the growing ecological crisis,but can never completely solve ecological crisis well.The paper tries to understand the secret behind the logic of capital growth and deepen our understanding of the current ecological crisis by combing the thoughts of ecological socialism revolution of Kovel.The paper also explores the contributions and limitations of the thoughts of ecological socialism revolution.In this way,we can understand the application of marxism in the era of ecological crisis and the development vein of ecological Marxism in North America.Besides,we can look for theory reference for ecological civilization construction in China.