Research On Ben Agger’s Capitalist Ecological Crisis Theory

The completion of the first industrial revolution marks the arrival of the era of capitalist industrialization,which is an era of unprecedented development of science and technology and productivity,rapid progress of machine industrialization,and a time when human understanding and conquest of nature are deepening,and material and wealth are rapidly expanding.The mercenary capitalist economic growth mode has given birth to the worsening ecological crisis,which has spread all over the world in the process of capitalist globalization and has evolved into a universal realistic problem threatening the survival of the entire human race.In the process of social movement and theoretical thinking around ecological environmental issues in western society,the "ecological Marxism" school,which emerged in the 1960 s,has become an important ideological achievement.As the main founder of ecological Marxism in North America,Ben Agger’s concern for ecological problems is based on the dual factors of reality and theory.From the perspective of the background of the times,we are facing the realistic challenges of the rise of the Marxist trend of thought in North America,the development of the green movement in western countries,and the change of western society to a consumer society;In terms of theoretical background,the absorption and reference of Marx’s thought on the relationship between man and nature,Frankfurt School’s ecological crisis theory and ecological related research results have multiple origins.The unique and far-reaching capitalist ecological crisis theory came into being in the process of layer by layer dynamic evolution through the embryonic stage,formation stage and development stage.By confirming the form of capitalist crisis,Agger’s theory of ecological crisis of capitalism reapplies Marx’s dialectics to the reality of modern western social development and reconstructs the theory of ecological crisis from economic crisis to ecological crisis of historical materialism.Through the exploration of the causes of the ecological crisis of capitalism,the paper analyzes the social root causes of the ecological crisis from the aspects of ideology,social system,social production mode and technology use,and opens the contemporary ecological perspective of capitalism criticism.Then the strategic conception of ecological crisis solution is developed,pointing out that the "dialectics of disillusionment" formed by the contradiction between the production process and the ecosystem will lead to socialist reform,and the strategy of "decentralization" and "non-bureaucbureaucracy" should be adopted to make socialism get rid of the ecological crisis.Finally,it explores the realization of ecological socialism without alienation from the multiple paths of reality and theory.From the perspective of logic,Agger’s "ecological crisis theory" takes the ecological criticism of capitalist society as the logical basis,the ecological consideration of the relationship between man and nature as the logic thread throughout the theory,and the realization of the meaning of ecological society as the value goal through the direct perception of the status quo of the western ecological crisis.From the logical basis to the logical main line,and then to the logical destination,a systematic and complete logical system of Agger’s capitalist ecological crisis theory is formed.In the carding of Agger’s theory of ecological crisis of capitalism,we should affirm his constructive theory of alienated consumption and ecological socialism,and make clear the significance of his expanding the vision of Marxist ecology,laying the research direction of ecological Marxism and criticizing the anti-ecological nature of contemporary capitalism.At the same time,the content that distorts and deviates from the original meaning of Marxism should be negated.Only by scientifically grasping the content,value and limitation of Agger’s capitalist ecological crisis theory can we better explore its value and significance for the socialist ecological civilization modernization construction with Chinese characteristics.