This article tries to pursue the theory of social ecology within the context of Marxian ecology, distinguished from current environmetalism and ecologicalism, through the critics and reinterpretation of Marx's theory of Nature. Recently, the issue of ...
This article tries to pursue the theory of social ecology within the context of Marxian ecology, distinguished from current environmetalism and ecologicalism, through the critics and reinterpretation of Marx's theory of Nature. Recently, the issue of nature has been raised as the new universal paradigm of global age. Although recent debates on ecology divided into 'anthropocentric' and 'ecocentric' approach, they share the common assumption of dichotomy which sharply confronted human with nature as they alienated each other. In this article, I synthesised 'anthropocentric' and 'ecocentric' approach to ecological paradigm and labor paradigm, through reinterpreting the concept of 'development of natural history' and 'development of production power' in Marx's thought. In Marx's thought, 'production', 'production power', 'development of production power' should be understood not as a simple material production of wealth or goods but as a 'development of association of individuals power'. Therefore, to Marx, development of natural history does not means the development of power of human over nature, but development of relation of human and nature. This conclusion infer that, to solve the ecological problem, we have to recover the nature of human instead of protecting nature as a physical environment of human. In his perspectives, the problem of nature is the production of natural and sensual human relations.