WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, FDCA, Il Cantiere #18: Notes on animal liberation - Olmo Losca (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The struggle for the liberation of the living from the organized pincers of the state and its apparatuses, from oppression and the coercive

constraints of borders and nations, is necessary - and inevitable - to start that inclusion (drive to understanding in differences) which
gives the propulsive impact to create the conditions for a profound and radical dismantling of the educational boulders inculcated from
birth. It is only the gaze in the direction of a sincere elimination of all competition, of all addiction to the daily dictates imposed and
accepted as absolute truths, of all traditional secularization, of all fear of the "different", which can make freedom germinate. Because it
is precisely the fear of the "different", of the "foreigner" - an infamous belief and tactic that dwells in the squalid rooms of power -
that incinerates any aptitude for sharing and knowledge of otherness. We are the different.
The mere thought of being superior - in terms of dialectics, schooling, geographical latitude, skin color, features, the "right" to
privilege by birth, the arrogant presumption of reason - is already fascism. Just thinking that some animals are to be saved (humans) and
others are not (non-humans) is already authoritarianism. We are all animal victims of this alienating system that chops and buries, like a
panzer, what it encounters. Even if the statement seems useless and obvious: humans are common mammals. So what differentiates them from the
others? The reason? Intelligence? And who distributes - santa fedeo decides who is and who is not intelligent?. Intelligence cannot be a
term of comparison. First because not everyone has the same peculiarities (regardless of the species) and second because in this way we use
power to subjugate those who do not have "tools" similar to power itself (skillful-unskillful, owner-non-owner; for example example). In
industrial and capitalist society the rich are worth much more than the poor, the manager much more than the worker, the bank manager much
more than the pensioner; in the same dimension of power man is worth much more than the animal. Society also divides other animals: the dog
is worth much more than the pig, the cat is worth more than the sheep, the horse is worth more than the turkey. The scales of power do not
change, the subjects involved change. If we want to fight the hierarchical ladder of human bodies - the master from the worker, then we have
to fight the hierarchical ladder of other animals. Capitalism annihilates the living: any category other than categories of privilege and
domination.
Dividing the bodies by "priority" or "importance" or "sympathy" is the antechamber of the camp. When we believe that an anonymous leader of
nowhere, a mediocre politician raised in gold and violence can solve our misery, can liberate our lives, can help our brothers and sisters,
then it is already too late; slaves we were and slaves we will remain. The only diversity to fight is authority, in all its forms. Turning
our backs on those who are chained and vice versa giving them to those who perpetuate our condition of rag puppets is an invitation to live
a life of consumer products. Many numbers that can be operated with a simple click. It is only self-determination that grows wings to be
able to escape from suffocating cages. Stand firm in your beliefs of superiority and purity and you will only have given your life to orcs
who will mount you with steel bridles; until you rip your skin off.
Observing the genuine rebellious movements of those who are nearby, who take different paths but always in the direction of liberation, this
is the impetus that sighs in the heart of special beings who fight and resist. Looking straight into the eyes of "Patriotic pocket truths of
we've always done it this way" of "I know it all" that compel us to close our attitude of solidarity with the victims, and then push them
over the path and finally leave them at the cliff . A leap that will embrace them forever. Deconstructing the language that amplifies and
multiplies the segregated "tenants", which feeds the oppression of the living, is a moral obligation. We are surrounded by cowardly generals
who have become executioners to make up for their frustration, chasing a status of decomposed leftovers. No help will be given to us by the
assassins of power, nobody. This is why the struggle for animal liberation is by birth anti-fascist, as it is by birth anti-racist and
anti-sexist. Anarchist animal liberation is not love for other animals, absolutely, that is association or abolitionist animalism.
Animal liberation is respect in all its forms and declinations, it is respect for the victims: all of them.

For the drowning Syrian, for the Pakistani trampled on the sidewalk, for the homeless dying of cold, for the veal snatched from its mother,
for the pig segregated in slaughterhouses, for the Roma burned in the camper, for the elderly man robbed from banks, for the little girl
raped by the executioners on vacation, for the rabbit tortured by lipstick, for the Senegalese man robbed and fined. For all and all. Animal
liberation is pure anti-capitalist politics (not the joke of the parties but the politics of the existing; and certainly not a mere diet
that has nothing to do with anarchist liberationism). Capitalism like fascism firmly believe that there shouldn't be the same inalienable
rights to life for everyone, that's why the liberationist struggle is anti-fascist. Anyone who thinks that animal resistance is not also an
anti-fascist political struggle has not understood the drama of oppression.
Architects of total liberation without ever voluntarily giving their side to power: this is animal resistance.

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