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'Leftists' and animal rights, the new book.

Theymakeakilling | 11.01.2008 20:45 | Analysis | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles | World

'Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing contains key insights into the broad nature of domination, power, and hierarchy. It explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions and their relation to the exploitative dynamics of capitalism. Combining nuts and bolts Marxist political economy, a pluralistic anarchist critique, as well as a searing assessment of the animal rights movement, Bob Torres challenges conventional anti-capitalist thinking and convincingly advocates for the abolition of animals in industry—and on the dinner plate.'

'Exploring Overlapping Oppressions

Making A Killing queries the linkages between the exploitation of humans and animals under capitalism, using a framework rooted in—but not constrained by—Marxist political economy. Working from key social anarchist insights on domination, oppresion, and hierarchy, Making A Killing calls for a new kind of activism, a holistic approach to social justice, and a realistic consideration of the flaws of both the Left and the animal rights movement.
Table of Contents

* 1: Taking Equality Seriously
* 2: Chained Commodities
* 3: Property, Violence, and the Roots of Oppression
* 4: Animal Rights and Wrongs
* 5: You Cannot Buy the Revolution

Fully footnoted and indexed, Making A Killing can serve as a jumping-off point for more reading in political economy, social anarchist theory, the animal rights movement, and the commodification of animals as property.'

 http://www.makingakillingbook.com/

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  1. Silliness — Mike Novack
  2. Somesense? — Leftyliberal
  3. Anarchists? — Eh?
  4. Closer — Anarcholepsy