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The Ecological Theory of Marxism

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Ecological theory results from human beings rethinking history in the context of the intensifying conflict between human beings and nature due to the extreme expansion of capitalism since the 1970s. In fact, such reflections started to emerge from the great theories of Marx and Engels in the 19th century.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Marx and Engels [1], (Vol. 1), p. 16.

  2. 2.

    Marx and Engels [2], (Vol. 42), p. 167.

  3. 3.

    Marx and Engels [2], (Vol. 42), p. 97.

  4. 4.

    Marx and Engels [1], (Vol. 1), p. 19.

  5. 5.

    Marx and Engels [2], (Vol. 42), p. 95.

  6. 6.

    Ibid., p. 167.

  7. 7.

    Marx and Engels [1], (Vol. 3), p. 492.

  8. 8.

    Marx and Engels [2], (Vol. 42), p. 97.

  9. 9.

    Ibid., p. 93.

  10. 10.

    Marx and Engels [2], (Vol. 42), p. 369.

  11. 11.

    Ibid., p. 124.

  12. 12.

    Ibid., p. 120.

  13. 13.

    Marx [3], (Vol. 1), p. 344.

  14. 14.

    Ibid., p. 553.

  15. 15.

    Marx and Engels [1], (Vol. 3), p. 484.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., p. 492.

  17. 17.

    Ibid., pp. 337–338.

  18. 18.

    Marx and Engels [1], (Vol. 3), p. 508.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., p. 517.

  20. 20.

    Ibid., p. 513.

  21. 21.

    Ibid., p. 517.

  22. 22.

    Marx and Engels [1], (Vol. 3), p. 520.

  23. 23.

    Ibid.., p. 529.

  24. 24.

    Ibid., p. 517.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., p. 518.

  26. 26.

    Marx and Engels [1], (Vol. 3), p. 518.

  27. 27.

    Ibid., p. 458.

  28. 28.

    Ibid., p. 562.

  29. 29.

    Pepper [4], “Preface”, p. 1.

  30. 30.

    Ibid.

  31. 31.

    Ibid., p. 91.

  32. 32.

    Ibid., p. 93.

  33. 33.

    Pepper [4], p. 101.

  34. 34.

    Ibid., p. 355.

  35. 35.

    Ibid., p. Forward p. 2.

  36. 36.

    Ibid., p. 1.

  37. 37.

    Ibid., p. 354.

  38. 38.

    See Journal of Social Sciences, 7th edition, October 11, 2007.

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Zeng, F. (2019). The Ecological Theory of Marxism. In: Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8984-9_4

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