福斯特的资本主义危机论及其中国启示

John Bellamy Foster’s Capitalist Crisis Theory and Its Implication for China

福斯特认为,当代资本主义发展正在遭遇严峻的'划时代危机'。经济维度上,当前人类尚未走出自大萧条以来最为严重的经济危机,经济垄断化、停滞化和金融化不仅在全球水平上相互作用还与全球劳动套利相勾连;社会维度上,工人阶级工作和生活的不稳定状况变为了全球性的问题,且这种不稳定相较于马恩时代甚至更为危险;生态维度上,资本主义生产的无限扩大突破了自然环境的承载限度,生态环境退化、生态失衡及其导致的全球生态不平等不断加剧。福斯特关于当代资本主义危机的研究与解读,具有鲜明的问题意识,对当前中国经济社会发展和生态文明建设具有批判性借鉴价值。

Foster believes that the development of contemporary capitalism is experiencing a severe'epoch-making crisis',which is embodied in the following three aspects.In the economic direction,he has insight into the economic monopoly,stagnation and financialization at the global level.Moreover,he finds that these are associated with global labor arbitrage.From the aspect of social direction,he perceives the instability of the working class’s work and life has become a global problem,and the instability is even more dangerous than the era in which Marx and Engels were.In terms of ecological direction,he points out that the infinite expansion of capitalist production breaks through the bearing limits of the natural environment.,and the degradation of the ecological environment,ecological imbalances and the resulting global ecological inequalities are increasing.Foster’s research and interpretation of the crisis of contemporary capitalism has a clear sense of problems,which has a critical reference value for China’s current economic and social development and ecological civilization construction.