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Total liberation

Total liberationism is a political movement that combines anarchism with a commitment to animal and earth liberation. Whilst more conventional approaches to anarchist politics have often focused on opposing the state and capitalism, the struggle for total liberation is additionally focused on opposing all additional forms of human oppression as well as the oppression of nonhuman animals and ecosystems. of total liberation typically espouse a holistic revolutionary strategy aimed at identifying the intersections between different forms of domination and social hierarchy, and building alliances between political movements in order to integrate them into a single movement capable of abolishing social structures such as the state, capitalism, patriarchy, racism, heterosexism, cissexism, disablism, ageism, speciesism, and ecological domination.

History and key concerns

Following a period of general inactivity after the Second World War, anarchism reemerged as a force in global politics during the 1960s. This new era of anarchist struggle was distinguished, however, by its adoption of a range of concerns - such as feminism, anticolonialism, queer struggle, antispeciesm, and ecology - that were previously of little or no concern for anarchists. More specifically, the involvement by anarchists in the animal and earth liberation movements was characterized, in part, by the rising popularity of veganism within radical circles, as well as by the formation of direct action groups such as the Hunt Saboteurs Association, Earth First!, Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front. The concept of total liberation then began to be used by anarchists during the 1990s in an explicit attempt to clarify the important connections between different forms of oppression, and to situate the often isolated political movements against them within a single overall struggle. Moreover, beyond its emergence from the historical development of the anarchist movement, a commitment to total liberation is also typically grounded in a concern for contemporary schools of political schools of thought such as antispeciesism, ecofeminism, deep ecology, and social ecology. As David Pellow summarises:

The concept of total liberation stems from a determination to understand and combat all forms of inequality and oppression. I propose that it comprises of four pillars: (1) an ethic of justice and anti-oppression inclusive of humans, nonhuman animals, and ecosystems; (2) anarchism; (3) anti-capitalism; and (4) an embrace of direct action tactics.