Translation of that linked excerpt > https://tierrechtsethik.de/tierbefreiung/
Animal liberation:
This term is generally regarded as the most emancipatory term in the movement of people who are campaigning for Nonhumans. The problem here is that the physical act of liberation is usually linked to theories that focus more on combating “exploitation” rather than “injustice”.
The degradation of animals in our societies, however, means the simultaneous denial of the capacity to be free. For animal liberators, however, this is not an object in the claim to an act of human liberation. The fact, that other people continue to imprison animals as an expression of what those people deny these animals, cannot be solved simply by opening walls, fences, stables and cages. The “theoretical cages” must also be opened so that no more cages are built, and habitats are not taken away.
The animal liberation movement does not endeavor to remove cultural and theoretical disempowerment factors from animality merely by making grand claims to the political independence of their own movement. The claim, for example, that guaranteed rights are not necessary for Nonhumans, but are necessary for oneself as a human, makes the movement implausible. The same goes for the socio-ethical exclusion of animality. How are animals worldwide to be “liberated” by a group of humans when that group of humans are themselves complicit in devices of disempowerment and entrapment – due to their failure to dismantle the mechanisms on an overall cultural level that allows for the constant devaluing of mind in regards to Nonhumans?
An observable problem is that when I physically liberate a Nonhuman, I can continue to degrade him/her as a subject in an objectifying way. The question of the cause and the actual functioning of human degradation of animals finds an oversimplified answer in a term that is actually more expressly suited to concrete liberation actions.
The aspirations of those who actively carry out animal liberation can be far-reaching in nature. However, the term “liberation” in relation to fundamental questions of injustice (which one as a matter of course likes to be able to claim for oneself as a human being – so why not for fellow beings?) pretends that the causes of injustice, and thus also of physical confinement and physical deprivation of liberty, would be definitively resolved with the physical act of liberation.
Animal liberation from human oppression per se should therefore address the questions of causes and mechanisms, not only of “exploitation”, but of a much larger problem. And, given the immensity of the problem, perhaps the political agenda should be more realistic in describing itself.
From: Tierrechte: zentrale Begriffe und Begriffserweiterungen > https://tierrechtsethik.de/tierrechte-zentrale-begriffe-und-begriffserweiterungen/
In regards to the Animal Sapiens > radikal-konstruktive Abgrenzung > https://tierrechtsethik.de/ausfuehrliche-pamphlete/gruende-zur-radikalen-abgrenzug/
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