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Marxist Ecology in China: From Marx’s Ecology to Socialist Eco-Civilization Theory

This article will be released in full online October 14, 2023.

Since the 1980s, Chinese writers and thinkers have been engaging with Marxist ecology, constructing a theoretical system that starts with interpretation of Marx and Engels themselves. Chen Yiwen takes stock of how this framework progressed toward an overarching theory of ecological civilization, generating new questions to be answered at every stage of development. | more…