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Animal liberation and direct action

Animal Liberation Press (ALF)
Wiki on Ethical Veganism
Wiki on the Animal Liberation Front
Wiki on Total Liberation
Different approaches to AL direct action
Earth First! manual and tactics
Support prisoners of conscience: Vegan Prisoners Support Group (UK)
If someone tells you to put some paint on your hands, tag some buildings and then go turn yourself into the police - your "rebellion" is a fucking op

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The Left Has Failed Animals (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 3 months ago by Angel@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Regardless of any factionalism from the author, personally I believe the absence of animal rights/veganism from the platform of major or alternative left wing parties, from most climate change analysis, or class analysis stems from carnists and vegetarians not being willing to do the mental work of confronting their own biases

Yep. What people need to understand more is that veganism can be framed as a way of thinking, an ethical principle, that leads to certain practices rather than a set of practices in and of itself. You're totally right that this feeling of veganism being a "sacrifice" is a large part of what perpetuates human supremacy.

I also disagreed with portions from the article, such as the one you quoted, but I still think it's a decently insightful writing.

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Yes I agree, I largely enjoyed reading it and it is interesting to see the throughlines (or lack thereof) of vegetarianism in socialism and other liberatory movements. As an aside, the Sexual Politics of Meat is really good for that too, the author discusses this hidden aspect of social movements really well.

Anyway I guess it's interesting to look at this analysis/lack thereof in Marxism, but it's a bit frustrating to see it painted as an ideological blind spot of marxism instead of a much wider ideological blind spot that the vast majority of people are affected by, across the political spectrum. Conservationists and hypocritical lovers of doggos abound and their hypocrisy doesn't stem from some jargon laced disagreement between Marx and utopian socialists from 200 years ago. Are there additional animal rights hypocrisies found specifically within the socialist/marxist/anarchist left? Maybe/probably, but I bet the vast majority of this is explained by factors that are common to meat eating 'animal lovers' across the political spectrum (i.e. 90%+ of the population).