Socialist Eco-Civilization as a Transformative Politics

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ID3834082
AuthorsQingzhi Huan (0000-0001-7874-821X, Peking University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume32
Issue3
Pages65-83
Publication date2021-07-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCapitalism Nature Socialism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5752 • E-ISSN: 1548-3290
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10455752.2020.1802498
OpenAlexW3064016310
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited17

The key to further elucidate and enrich the academic concept or discourse of "socialist eco-civilization" lies in that it cannot be simplified or falsified in reality as a public policy of ecological environment governance, but be separated from the grander and more important background and context of "socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist theory with Chinese characteristics." More specifically, the discourse and politics of "socialist eco-civilization," compared with various forms of "eco-centrism" or "eco-capitalism," can (or should) represent the essence or goal of contemporary China's eco-civilization construction strategy. Therefore, the theory of "social-ecological transformation" (SET) advocated and promoted by the "green-left" academic circles in the Western countries, as well as other radical transformation theories in other areas of the world, may not eventually lead to a "great transformation" or even a "socialist transformation" of contemporary capitalist society, but it does provide us some enlightenments on methodology (discourse) and politics of constructing a socialist eco-civilization in China today

Capitalism · China · Civilization · Communism · Context (archaeology · Economic system · Economics · Environmental ethics · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Socialism · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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