Jonathan Hughes’ Critique and Implications of Marx’s “Fracture of Ecological Thought”

在生态危机愈演愈烈的大背景下，西方生态主义认为马克思生态思想存在“断裂”无法指导“生态问题”，他们一方面从时间维度上质疑马克思著作中存在早期与晚期的“生态思想断裂”；另一方面从整体维度上质疑马克思主义哲学、历史理论和经济理论的存在“生态学断裂”。对此，英国生态学马克思主义者乔纳森·休斯从马克思主义经典文本中寻找依据并一一进行了有力的反驳，批判了西方生态主义者曲解马克思生态思想连续性的政治意图，坚定地捍卫了马克思主义的生态立场，维护了马克思在生态问题上的发言权。In the context of the growing ecological crisis, Western ecologists believe that Marx’s ecological thought has a “rupture” and is unable to guide the “ecological problem”. On the one hand, they questioned the existence of “ecological break” between early and late Marx’s writings from the time dimension; on the other hand, they questioned the existence of “ecological break” in Marxist philosophy, historical theory and economic theory from the overall dimension. In this regard, British ecological Marxist Jonathan Hughes searched for the basis from the classic Marxist texts and refuted them one by one, criticising the political intention of the Western ecologists to misinterpret the continuity of Marx’s ecological thought, firmly defending the ecological stance of Marxism, and safeguarding Marx’s right to speak out on ecological issues.