On June 15th an article by John Bellamy Foster titled “Marxism,
Ecological Civilization, and China” appeared on MRZine. It was the
fourth in a series of exchanges that date back to a February 2012
Monthly Review article by Zhihe Wang titled “Ecological Marxism in China”.
Wang, who is the director of the Center for Constructive Postmodern
Studies and professor of philosophy at Harbin Institute of Technology in
China, discusses the penetration of Marxist ecological theories in China
including those that should be familiar to those of you who keep abreast
of such matters: 1. James O’Connor’s theory of the “Second
Contradiction” 2. Joel Kovel’s Frankfurt Marxist analysis 3. Foster/Paul
Burkett, which Wang implies is the only one that is strictly Marxist.
For the most part, Wang is enthusiastic about the arrival of a Green-Red
synthesis and gives equal credit to academicians like Foster and Chinese
officials such as Yi Junqing, who Wang describes as:
the Minister of Central Bureau of Compilation and Translation (a top
government institution on Marxism Studies in China), believes that
“Marxism will lose its vitality” if it does not address the ecological
crisis in the twenty-first century.
Wow. That’s pretty good news, ain’t it? A top government official is not
only a Marxist but someone who emphatically believes that ecosocialism
should become official government policy. I must have dozed off
somewhere along the line not to have noticed this.
full:
http://louisproyect.org/2015/06/22/is-china-going-green-a-reply-to-john-bellamy-foster/
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