马克思的《资本论》写于十九世纪40-80年代,当时资本主义得到迅速发展,资本主义生产方式在英美等国占据统治地位。资本主义生产在极大地促进了生产力发展的同时也造成了资源的浪费和环境的污染:资本家在整个资本主义生产过程中为了满足自己不断获取利润的贪欲而必然要不断地扩张资本,向广大工人和自然界进行索取,在得到巨额利润的同时却对工人阶级的生活环境和工作环境以及自然环境造成了难以弥补的损失,资本主 Marx’s “theory of capital” was written in the 1940s-1980s when capitalism developed rapidly and the capitalist mode of production dominated the United Kingdom and the United States. Capitalist production has greatly contributed to the development of productive forces as well as the waste of resources and the pollution of the environment. Capitalists must inevitably constantly expand their capital in order to satisfy their greed for profits during the entire process of capitalist production. The workers and the nature ask for it, and at the same time they make huge profits, they have irreparable losses to the living and working environment of the working class and to the natural environment. The capitalist