A Study Of J.B.Foster’s Ecological Crisis Theory

Along with the acceleration of the process of industrialization,the “golden period” of development for western developed capitalist countries has arrived.The rapid development of science and technologies has brought human beings with abundant material wealth,at the same time,the ghost of ecological crisis has also come silently with environmental pollution,resource shortage,climate change and other ecological issues surging constantly.In this regard,ecological crisis has been highlighted by human beings and people start to reflect on the questions as what is the root of ecological crisis? How can we get rid of it? John Bellamy Foster who is one of the famous representatives of school of ecological Marxism combines the ecological issues with social issues to form his own special theory of ecological crisis based on Marxist philosophy.With the foothold on the fact of global ecological crisis,Foster re-elaborates the ecological thoughts of Marx,carries out comprehensive analysis and research on the western developed capitalist countries and deeply reveals the responsibilities of capitalist system for “original sin” in such ecological crisis.Moreover,he also points out that only by relying on ecological social revolution and overthrowing the existing social system can we walk on the way toward ecological socialist society and eliminate ecological crisis.The entire paper is divided into four parts.Firstly,it introduces the era context and theoretical background for the generation of Foster’ s ecological crisis theory.Secondly,it further explores and discusses the ecological crisis faced by capitalism,moreover,it also points out the responsibilities of capital for “original sin” in such ecological crisis and the falsity of solving ecological crisis within the capitalism framework.Thirdly,it discusses that the right path to eliminate ecological crisis is carrying out a thorough ecological and social reform.Finally,it conducts basic evaluation on Foster’ s ecological crisis theory and discusses the practical value of its reasonable factors for the construction of ecological civilization in China by combining with the practical issues faced by China.