Ecological Perceptions in Marxism and Gandhism

Ecological Perceptions in Marxism and Gandhism

The views of Marxian and Gandhian on Ecology are the product of forces that shaped their times. Marx was mainly concerned with ameliorating the economic condition of the deprived section of people who were hardly hit by the economic impacts of the Industrial Revolution. He had no compunction at the distraction of the natural resources which ware blatantly tapped. That entire he wanted was that the profits accruing out of the tapping of these resources must be diverted to free the deprived section from the clutches of the new industrial class. Thus his perception of ecology was mundane, wordly and rooted to bettering the interest of the proletariate. Gandhian perception of ecology was idyllic, frugallist aiming at changing hearts of the beneficiary of the exploitation of nature and making them conscious of the woes of the ecology appears to be more suited to minimizing the mad rush for development at the cost of depletion of natural resources causing ecological in balances. In the growing consciousness of ecology all over the world the views of two great thinkers to be balanced and made effective.