Down with the liars who are talking of freedom and equality for all, while there is an oppressed sex, while there are oppressor classes, while there is private ownership of capital, of shares, while there are the well-fed with their surplus of bread who keep the hungry in bondage. Not freedom for all, not equality for all, but a fight against the oppressors and exploiters, the abolition of every possibility of oppression and exploitation-that is our slogan! – V.I. Lenin, "Soviet Power and the Status of Women"
The slogan "abolition of every possibility of oppression and exploitation" has broader applications than early twentieth-century Marxist-Leninism. In Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America, Robin Kelley writes: "The beauty of the line 'Abolition of Every Possibility of Oppression and Exploitation' is that it resists hierarchies. It refuses to privilege class over race, or race over gender, or sexuality over class, race, or gender."
Like Kelley, I think we should be bringing back this beautiful old slogan. When we think of veganism and abolition we should think of eliminating ableism, adultism, ageism, antisemitism, cissexism/transphobia, classism/capitalism, heterosexism/homophobia, imperialism/colonialism, militarism, nationalism/xenophobia, Orientalism, racism/white supremacy, sexism/misogyny/patriarchy, and every other possibility of oppression and exploitation, as well as eliminating speciesism/human supremacy.