The Enlightenment of David Pepper’s Ecological Socialism Thought on the Construction of Ecological Civilization in China

David Pepper’s ecological socialism ideology is an important component of Western ecological Marxism. By criticizing the capitalist ecological crisis and elevating it to criticizing the capitalist system and production methods, he proposed a new idea of ecological socialism, providing a new perspective for the academic community to study the capitalist ecological crisis. Compared with ecological socialism, socialist ecological civilization has its unique innovation, transcendence, and progressiveness. It not only inherits and develops Marxist ecological views, but also goes beyond the scope of ecological socialism improvement. While examining the capitalist ecological crisis, it opens up a new path for ecological civilization construction, committed to achieving harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.