[Marxism] A socialist analysis of the value of the animalliberation movement

[Samuel Waite]

Other readings that might be of interest:

"'The Creatures, Too, Must Become Free':  Marx and the Animal/Human Distinction" by Lawrence Wilde:  http://marxmyths.org/lawrence-wilde/article.htm

"Ambiguities of Animal Rights" by Peter Staudenmaier:  http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20040611140817458

There's also a book that AK Press published recently by Bob Torres called Making a Killing:  The Political Economy of Animal Rights.  Despite the title, it really came across to me as a confused mishmash of bourgeois moralism, marxian political economy and Bookchinite anarchism.

Interestingly, Torres spends a great deal of time criticizing the "mainstream" animal rights movement -- PETA, Singer, etc. -- for their opportunism.  He's right in these criticisms, of course, but doesn't offer much of a coherent alternative.  Indeed, I'm not even sure that one is possible:  given that nonhuman animals can't themselves become collectively conscious of their situation, it's difficult to apply the sort of "rank-and-file vs. bureaucracy" approach that's applied in other movements.