TITLE:
Some Thoughts on Ecological Marxism
AUTHORS:
Zhiyan Li
KEYWORDS:
Ecological Socialism, Western Marxism, Ecological Marxism, Socialism
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.12,
December
13,
2021
ABSTRACT: By means of literature research, this paper will attempt to conclude the
background and nature of ecological Marxism, will illustrate and analyze its
four theories: ecological crisis, alienation consumption, steady-state economic
model and ecological socialism. These theories strengthened socialist ideal and
belief, however, they have obvious deficiencies in such aspects as replacing
the basic conflict of capitalist society by the conflict between human and
ecology, restraining the increasingly growing material and cultural needs of
people with “zero economic growth”, and opposing “violent revolution”.