I escaped the Reddit regime a little while ago. I consider myself a marxist-leninist-MZT. Vegetarian and vegan for a few years. I've a lot of thoughts on how marxism and veganism are connected. Never wrote them down. I'd like to start smth like a club for marxist vegans to develop our own proletarian theory. Most vegan theory I found is either openly bourgeois (Francione is a literal TERF) or revisionist (anti-China, anarchist, libertarian). How about fixing this?
So I wrote a thing and then realized after you had already mentioned religion also in your example (oops, reading comprehension fail lol). I will post what I was going to say anyway, but it may come across a bit of a repeat of what you have already said.
This is what I wrote:
Yeah, I would say it's similar to what gets called "militant atheism" in this way. It's one thing to be against exploitative, abusive, or controlling religious practices (especially cult-leaning stuff). It's another thing to hate religion unquestioningly and in the process, be hating colonized peoples who just happen to also be religious while fighting for liberation. In a similar sense, it's one thing to encourage someone who can realistically eat vegan to eat vegan. It's another thing to throw everyone under the bus, including colonized peoples who hunt in ways that respect animals and do it to survive, and have a very different view and practice of eating meat than the factory farming capitalistic mode of consumption. When we try to universalize these things too flippantly, we more often end up on the side of imperialism, even if unintentionally. The imperialized, colonized peoples of the world may not have the "liberal individualism" "choices" that we have to "choose to be vegan" in the first place. Some of them are outright struggling to eat, period. So yeah, things need to be understood in the proper context.