[Against] Animal Capitalism views the history and prehistory of capitalism as a multispecies project in which rights, obligations, privileges and protections are defined more on the basis of power relations than on the basis of species solidarity or sameness/difference.

Instead of focusing on the capacities of different beings (rationality, ability to suffer, autonomy) as a source of their rights or lack thereof, it views their relationship to bonds (i.e., labor, cages, debt) as a source of their status as human/protected vs animal/dispensable. Dismantling these bonds is necessary for multispecies liberation.