ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the strict relationship between capitalism and animal poverty. Entitled as ‘Commodification of Human Labour, Non-Human Animals and Nature’ this part of the study clarifies how the nature-human-animal dialectical relationship has moved to a new dimension, as compared to the human-animal relationship in traditional pre-capitalist societies, with the emergence of the capitalist commodification process. Also, in the same part it is argued how human-animal fate unity (the term is discussed elaborately in the chapter) was strengthened with the Fencing Process. The main goal of the second sub-part entitled ‘Capitalism as a Process Intensifying the Alienation of Human Beings within the Context of the Human-Animal Dialectic’ is to underline how the process that emerged with the break from human labour within the context of Marx's theory of alienation began to intensify with capitalism. More importantly, the effects of such an intensified alienation from human labour, nature and society are discussed at length within the context of the animal-human dialectic in this part. In the last section of the third chapter, ‘Capitalism as a Potential Road to Building a New Human-Animal Dialectic,’ it is argued that despite all its negative impacts on animal poverty, the capitalist system having productive forces much more developed than those of traditional pre-capitalist societies still has the potential for paving a way for constructing socialist formation in terms of increasing animal welfare.
