Kohei Saito identifies the"imperial mode of living"as the root cause of the climate crisis in the Anthro-pocene,and emphasizes that the Northern countries maintain their"imperial mode of living"by plundering the re-sources of developing countries and transferring the ecological crisis through the three forms of technological trans-fer,spatial transfer,and temporal transfer.He thinks the"Green New Deal"proposed by Western thinkers in re-sponse to the climate crisis fails to genuinely resolve the contradiction between economic growth and"planetary boundaries,"the decoupling of economic growth and"carbon emissions,"and the inability to reduce the consump-tion of natural resources,therefore,they are not an effective way to deal with the climate crisis.By examining the de-velopment of Marx's thought,he argues that Marx's thought went through a period of youth in which he believed in the supremacy of productive forces and a Eurocentric view of history,a period of the ecological turn in Das Kapital,and a period of the deepening of ecological research in his later ecological notebooks.And he points out that the core of Marx's ecology is the concept of"material metabolism",and that the capitalist system has caused an inter-ruption of the"material metabolism"relationship between man and nature.Using what he understands as Marx's ecology,he develops an ecological critique of contemporary capitalism,arguing that only a"de-growth"communist society can truly overcome the climate crisis.Kohei Saito's theory has the theoretical commonality of ecological Marxism,but he also has his theoretical individuality in his examination of Marx's ecological thought and his dis-cussion of a"de-growth"communist society.Kohei Saito's theory of ecological Marxism is of great value in promoting the theoretical study of ecological civilization and the practice of ecological civilization construction in China.
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