ABSTRACT
This section provides a framework for the practical struggle in creating a new social formation for increasing animal welfare within the context of the question of ‘What Can Be Done for Animal Welfare?’ Accordingly, this section has been organised under three subheadings. In the first part, it is argued that civil societies in contemporary capitalist countries can be instrumental in laying groundwork for political struggles against the bourgeoisie order. The importance of Gramsci's formulation of civil society and Althusser's formulation of the notion of ideology in creating counter-hegemony for the working class are two important issues discussed in this section. In the second part, political subject-positions of new social movements, especially of animal rights advocates and environmental movements are discussed. More importantly, in the context of animal welfare, the strategic importance of making new social movements that condition the political position of the working class in today's capitalist societies is also highlighted in the section. In the last section, a political strategy is developed as to how subjects/agents who do not consider themselves to be members of the working class, but ultimately labourers, can become components of the working class in order to re-establish the human-animal dialectic through an existentialist discourse in which human labour is conditioned as an ontological basis/category.
