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Capitalism originated in—and would have been impossible without—imperialism, colonization, the international slave trade, genocide, and large-scale environmental destruction. Organized around profit and power imperatives, capitalism is a system of slavery, exploitation, class hierarchy, inequality, violence, and forced labor. The Global Capitalist Gulag was fueled, first, by the labor power of millions of slaves from Africa and other nations, and, second, by massive armies of immigrants, former artisans and craftsmen, domestic workers, and urban masses that comprised an utterly new social class, the industrialized proletariat.
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Karl Marx,Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (1867), trans. Ben Fowkes ( London: Penguin Books, 1976 ), p. 926.
See Lerone Bennett Jr.,Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America ( New York: Penguin Books, 1993 ).
Marjorie Spiegel,The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery ( New York: Mirror Books, 1997 ).
See Jason Hribal,Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance ( Oakland, CA: AK Press/Counterpunch, 2011 ).
W. E. B. Du Bois,The Souls of Black Folk (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1994 [1903]), p. v.
See Steven Best, “The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved and ACLU Approved,”International Journal for Inclusive Democracy, vol. 3, no. 3 (July 2007):http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no3_best.htm.
Joan Dunayer,Speciesism ( New York, Lantern Books, 2004 ), p. 69.
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Best, S. (2014). The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery, and Animal Liberation. In: The Politics of Total Liberation. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440723_2
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