Abstract: Ecological Marxism， as an important genre of Western Marxism， is a theoretical attempt of combining the latest research findings of modern ecology with Marxism by the modern western scholars， with Marx and Engelss ideas of ecological civilization being the academic matrix of ecological Marxism. Ever since the 1990s， the eco-Marxists have gradually realized that there exist rich ideas of ecological civilization in the thoughts of Marx and Engels. Specifically speaking， ecological Marxism aims to explore the thoughts of ecological civilization in Marx and Engelss dialectical materialist views of nature， the fracture theory of metabolism and the labor theory of value.

Key words: ecological Marxism, Marx & Engels, ecological civilization