The Poverty of Animals: Towards a Marxist Theory of Animal Welfare

This book makes a theoretical contribution to animal rights issues from a Marxist perspective. Drawing on ethics, politics and philosophy, it focuses on how to create a social formation that will improve animal welfare. Further, the book enables the readers to grasp current theoretical debates on animal welfare and to gain insight into theoretical and practical perspectives in dealing with the animal issues.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars of politics and political philosoph...