A Community of Life for Man and Nature: A China’s Solution to the “Nature Alienation” in Accelerating Society

Acceleration is not only a distinctive feature of modern society, but also an important perspective for understanding ecological crisis. Under the dominance of capital, modern society satisfies its desire for proliferation through acceleration, which makes nature become an object of rational calculation and a tool for value appreciation, losing its original meaning for human subjectivity, that is, nature alienation. The ecological disorder of acceleration and desynchronization is not the inevitable result of natural operation, but stems from the “first driving force” of capital. Capital proliferation contains accelerated demand, constructing an accelerated society through the acceleration of production, circulation, and consumption, which is the underlying logic of social acceleration. Nature is not the object of human fanatical production, conquest, enslavement, and exploitation, but the “inorganic body” for human survival and development. A community of life for man and nature is a China’s solution to the problem of accelerating social “natural alienation”. As a life relationship under the “observation” of socialist production relation, it not only presents the deep driving forces behind social acceleration and desynchronization, but also points out the reasonable pattern of interaction between human and nature, the conscious awareness of interaction between human and nature, and the value foundation of interaction among human. Breaking the accelerated logic of capital domination and building a community of life between human and nature has profound significance in alleviating the current ecological crisis, resolving the contradictions between human and nature, expanding the breadth of human survival in green development, and extending the depth of nature value.