Critical Perspective
The issue of Animal abuse is exemplary of Marxist criticism because throughout the research I observed that the conscious of those who abuse animals were being shaped by violent behavior in society. Karl Marx states “it’s not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” Connecting Marx’s criticism to animal abuse I was able to determine that a violent person that abuses animals will do so to attack human victims. It goes further than just not respecting animals it’s about the purpose behind the abuser doing its damage. Marx believed that humans were animals also and share much common with other animals. It’s a natural perspective that reveals equality among the human race and animals. No equality in all but in the way that we should respect them and not mess with them so they do the same. The problem with society is that they don’t really pay the attention needed to this issue or they just don’t know of it as an issue and the importance of other living creatures just doesn’t exist and we minimize the animals as less than humans. The mentality that we are better than animals is similar to the one that an abuser has and that need to change. We need to have more people aware of the issue so the abuse stops.
The issue of Animal abuse is exemplary of Marxist criticism because throughout the research I observed that the conscious of those who abuse animals were being shaped by violent behavior in society. Karl Marx states “it’s not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” Connecting Marx’s criticism to animal abuse I was able to determine that a violent person that abuses animals will do so to attack human victims. It goes further than just not respecting animals it’s about the purpose behind the abuser doing its damage. Marx believed that humans were animals also and share much common with other animals. It’s a natural perspective that reveals equality among the human race and animals. No equality in all but in the way that we should respect them and not mess with them so they do the same. The problem with society is that they don’t really pay the attention needed to this issue or they just don’t know of it as an issue and the importance of other living creatures just doesn’t exist and we minimize the animals as less than humans. The mentality that we are better than animals is similar to the one that an abuser has and that need to change. We need to have more people aware of the issue so the abuse stops.