Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No. 11, 2024

Exploration on Ecological Products and Their Value Realization—A Political Economy Perspective

(Abstract)

Zhuang Guiyang, Ding Fei and Wang Sibo

Amid the escalating global ecological crisis, humanity must actively engage in ecological governance to sustain the foundational conditions for the expanded reproduction of material exchanges between humans and nature. Enhancing the Earth’s self-purification capacity is the core goal of ecological labor, reflecting the public and social attributes of ecological products through the production of social use value. In contrast to the development paradigm of capitalist industrial civilization, the construction of a socialist ecological civilization shows a nascent progress toward a communist society in terms of production relations. Within the framework of a socialist market economy, ecological governance should be government-led while harnessing the positive role of the law of value. Ultimately, this approach manifests in a new qualitative state of producing social use value.