社会主义生态文明视域下的消费经济、消费主义与消费社会

Consumption Economy, Consumerism and Consumption Society from the Perspective of Socialist Ecological Civilization

从生态马克思主义的视角看,欧美资本主义国家中消费经济的出现以及经由消费主义向消费社会的演进,其实质或根源在于始终形塑着这整个过程及其结果的资本主义经济制度框架及其社会文化意识形态。依此而言,当代中国显然还不是一个完整或典型意义上的消费社会。更准确地说,当今中国现实生活或大众日常消费层面上所发生的、依然进展中的消费社会转型,对于我们正在致力于的社会主义生态文明建设既提出了严峻的挑战,也带来了重要的机遇。尤其是,基于清醒的社会主义政治自觉的生态文明建设,可以同时成为对这一转型进程的一种内在约束和替代性引领,或者说向中国特色社会主义中高级阶段过渡的历史性推动。

From the perspective of Ecological Marxism,the emergence of consumptioneconomy and the evolution from Consumerism to consumption society in European and American capitalist countries are essentially rooted in the framework of capitalist economic system and its social and cultural ideology that always shaped the whole process and its results.In this sense,contemporary China is obviously not a complete or typical consumption society. To be more precise,the ongoing transformation of the consumption society in China’s real life or on the level of daily consumption of the masses,has not only posed severe challenges but also brought important opportunities for the construction of the socialist ecological civilization that we are committed to. In particular,the construction of ecological civilization based on the sober socialist political consciousness can become both internal constraint and alternative guidance to the transformation process,and a historical impetus to the transition to the middle and senior stage of socialism with Chinese characteristics as well.