The Politics of Total Liberation

1. Front Matter

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2. The Animal Standpoint

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   Pages 1-20

3. The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery, and Animal Liberation

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   Pages 21-49

4. The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action

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   Pages 51-78

5. Rethinking Revolution: Veganism, Animal Liberation, Ecology, and the Left

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   Pages 79-106

6. Minding the Animals: Cognitive Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism

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   Pages 107-135

7. Moral Progress and the Struggle for Human Evolution

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   Pages 137-158

8. Conclusion: Reflections on Activism and Hope in a Dying World and Suicidal Culture

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   Pages 159-166

9. Back Matter

   Pages 167-187

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This book argues that there is an ongoing planetary crisis, in both the social and natural worlds, that is of urgent importance. This demands a new politics, a politics of total liberation, one that grasps the need to unite the disparate movements for human, animal, and earth liberation. In the book, Best outlines a way forward despite challenges.

• Total liberation
• animal rights
• animal liberation
• veganism
• human rights
• social justice
• environmentalism
• pacifism
• direct action
• animal standpoint theory
• speciesism
• anthropocentrism
• capitalism
• morality
• politics
• revolution

Steven Best is an award-winning writer, noted international speaker, public intellectual, and seasoned activist with over 30 years in diverse political movements. He is Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

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