Gilles Dauvé

"Our critique of capitalism is precisely that value production turns everything, whether meat or poetry, into commodity, and that it's no use asking for more love poems and less hamburgers."

"Nature awareness, ecological worries and reactions to animal abuse are not signs of mankind at last getting conscious of its impact on the rest of the planet, but of the necessity for capital to think…"

"It's no coincidence that an acute sensibility to the condition of animals comes up at the same time as industrialised food and concentration camp style farming."

"Managers try to make the workplace safer and less destructive of a precious capital: labour. Animal exploitation duplicates this process. It tends to experiment less on animals in order to get more fr…"

"Animals that kill usually have far more social relationships than those they prey upon."

"Communism knows no monster. ... Should abuse occur, the perpetrator would not be ostracized by his fellow human beings. They would not reject the social violator in order to reassure themselves of the…"