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Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2021, 4(7); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2021.040715.

Brief Analysis of Foster's Ecological Marxism

Author(s)

Xinquan Fu

Corresponding Author:
Xinquan Fu
Affiliation(s)

College of Marxism, Communication University of China, Beijing 100024, China

Abstract

In the era of industrial civilization, the economy and society are highly developed and a large amount of social wealth has been accumulated, but at the same time, it has brought about irreparable ecological trauma.Foster in his book Marx's ecology, talk about "Marx's ecology" for the first time, he puts forward "ecological Marxism" point of view, and stood in the perspective of Marxist ecological theory and the nature of capitalism from the Marxism reveals to criticize capitalism, dedicated to social and ecologically sustainability, building ecological theory system of its own.   

Keywords

Forster; Ecological Marxism; Materialism; The contemporary value

Cite This Paper

Xinquan Fu. Brief Analysis of Foster's Ecological Marxism. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2021) Vol. 4, Issue 7: 82-85. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2021.040715.

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