Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Meijer, Eva

Titel

Animals

Ist Teil von

• Krisis (Amsterdam, Netherland : 2000), 2018-01 (2)

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Krisis

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nonhuman animals are not often considered a factor of importance in Marxist thought, and insights from Marxist thought are not often considered to be relevant to animal studies (Cochrane 2010). Marx himself did not write about nonhuman animals in much detail and saw humans as distinct from all other animals. Even though he had read Darwin (Benton 1993), who famously argued that differences between humans and other animals are of degree and not kind, and recognized the capacities of nonhuman animals to produce, as well as the animal nature of humans (Cochrane 2010), he saw humans as special animals and his theory is anthropocentric in different ways. His historical account for example focuses solely on human history and teleology, not recognizing animal agency or the importance of nonhuman animal- (or interspecies-) labor in capitalism. He also explicitly addresses the human capacity for transcending their animal nature, in contrast to other animals (ibid.). The focus is on human liberation, and the idea of justice for nonhuman animals seems irrelevant from this perspective.