An Exploration of the Internal Logic of Andre Gorz’s Eco-critical Theory

The eco-critical theory of Andre Gorz presents a relatively rigorous and profound internal logical path, that is, starting from the criticism of traditional socialism, it analyzes the internal consistency between traditional socialism and capitalism in the level of economic rationality and redefines socialism with ecological rationality as the core. Taking the ecological criticique of capitalism as the logical mainline, the paper criticizes the division of labor, science and technology, economic rationality, and alienated consumption of capitalism from the perspective of ecology, and reveals the capitalist system root of ecological crisis. Taking “non-worker-non-class” and the new social movement as the logical medium, this paper analyzes the disappearance of the traditional revolutionary subject and explores the new revolutionary subject. Taking the construction of ecological socialism as the logical aim, this paper expounds on the path of constructing eco-critical theory based on criticizing ecological capitalism. To clarify the internal logic of Gorz’s eco-critical theory is of great value to systematically comb out the overall framework of Gorz’s thought system and grasp the whole ecological Marxism. But fundamentally speaking, Gorz’s ecological criticique of capitalism has not surpassed Marx’s political economy criticism of capitalism, and the ecological socialism constructed by Gorz has a strong utopian color.