CSSN-Marxism offers green path to development

Marxism offers green path to development

Author : Source : 2016-05-17

More than a hundred scholars from the United States, China, South Korea and Italy gathered at the 10th International Forum on Ecological Civilization, hosted by California’s Claremont Graduate University in late April. With the goal of exploring alternatives to the pollution-intensive Western model of development, the forum focused on the topic “organic Marxism and ecological civilization.” Americans need to learn Marxist methods of analysis and policy-making, and the Chinese idea of ecological civilization has had a great influence on the United States, said Philip Clayton, a contemporary American philosopher of religion and philosopher of science. The theory of organic Marxism was first articulated by Philip Clayton and his student Justin Heinzekehr in their 2014 book Organic Marxism: An Alternative to Capitalism and Ecological Catastrophe, which combined Marxism, traditional Chinese wisdom and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead to provide a guiding theory for the resolution of global ecological crises.

Editor: Yu Hui