Marxist on Environment

Marxist Perspective Marxists describe man’s interdependence with nature to both the biochemical and psychological. Man gets all vital substance from nature for his existence, for that nature in turn is being affected by man’s activity, man’s dependence on nature is; for his direct means of life; and the material, the object, and the instrument of his life activities. As a part of nature mans spiritual and physical life being linked to the nature, which mans nature, is linked to him. Marxist perspective on environmental problem focus on both social inequality and the consequences of class divided capital society, defined by economic criteria. It seeks for the abolitions of capitalism which is un sustainable and unnatural because of its unequal economic developments and exploitation for the withering away of state. To Howard.L.Parsons, dialects are “man’s collective and immediate material dealings with nature bring him in to dialectical relations with it, into dynamic and potentially developing interaction with it. Such a relations, when critically analyzed, reveals nature as continuous motion, interconnections, and transformations. Nature is a ceaseless, series of unities of opposites, which are mutually creative, mutually destructive, and mutually transforming”. Rudolf Bahro, a leading German ecosocialist, argues that capitalism is the root cause of environmental problems. The natural world has been spoiled by industrialization, but this is merely a consequence of capitalism’s search for profit. Capitalism is thus characterized not only by class conflict but also by the progressive destruction of the natural environment. Both human labor and natural world are exploited because they are treated simply as economic resources. The core theme of eco socialism is the idea that capitalism is the enemy of the environment, whilst socialism is its friend. However, such a formula embodies tension between two elements, it between ‘red’ and ‘green’ priorities. If environmental catastrophe is nothing more than a by-product of capitalism, abolishing capitalism, or at least taming it, becomes the main agenda. For this Therefore, ecologist should not form separate green parties of set up narrow environmental organizations, but work within the socialist movement and address the real issue: the economic system.