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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).