{"id":3619,"date":"2020-11-24T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2020-11-24T00:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T08:43:00","slug":"extending-anarchist-principles-to-non-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=3619","title":{"rendered":"Extending anarchist principles to non-humans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-04c825face0d479b555fab471fd9b837 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is not merely humans that are the victims of State, capitalist, and \u2013 more generally \u2013 hierarchical destruction: the common victims of this complex of domination are ultimately all forms of life on Earth. Peter Kropotkin once said: \u201cEquality in all things, the synonym of equity, this is anarchism in very deed.\u201d It seems that Kropotkin, perhaps the single most celebrated hero of anarchism, recognised the essence of anarchism: equality in all things. What he perhaps did not recognise, as might instead be a deed reserved for the anarchists of today\u2019s world, is what it means to follow this essence to its logical conclusion. If we are going to take the idea of equality seriously, should we not ask whether, rather than being confined by the boundary of our own species, our struggle should emphatically transcend it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the labor historian Erik Loomis has written about many times for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/tag\/meatpacking\">Lawyers, Guns and Money<\/a> and the human and animal liberation video essayist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fh1nfxapkM0\">Mexie<\/a> has discussed, you can&#8217;t regard as discrete issues the way powerful people in society treat animals and treat the vulnerable people directly responsible for animal husbandry and slaughter. Capitalists literally seem to view workers as animals, so why would they care if a pandemic spreads between workers when they already don&#8217;t care about pandemics that spread between animals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green Anarchism <em>feels<\/em> like an extreme or unnecessary further step to go, but it&#8217;s hard to make any argument against extending anarchist principles to non-humans, whether arguing consistency, empathy, or naked self-interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Audio<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Green Anarchism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SusCwTGlshI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Full Text<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freedomnews.org.uk\/green-anarchism-towards-the-abolition-of-hierarchy\/\">https:\/\/freedomnews.org.uk\/green-anarchism-towards-the-abolition-of-hierarchy\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/corin-bruce-green-anarchism-towards-the-abolition-of-hierarchy\">https:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/corin-bruce-green-anarchism-towards-the-abolition-of-hierarchy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is not merely humans that are the victims of State, capitalist, and \u2013 more generally \u2013 hierarchical destruction: the common victims of this complex of domination are ultimately all forms of life on Earth. Peter Kropotkin once said: \u201cEquality in all things, the synonym of equity, this is anarchism in very deed.\u201d It seems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[651,3,785,812,828,893,924,1107,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anarchism","category-anarcho-satanism","category-erik-loomis","category-freedom-news","category-green-anarchism","category-lawyers-guns-and-money","category-mexie","category-the-anarchist-library","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}