I am 47 years old, born and bred in the US. I work as a professor of philosophy and politics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts. I first became politicized in the early 1980s, when I got caught up in the international nuclear disarmament movement. I later became involved in the Central American solidarity network, the animal rights movement, and the Green Party. Over th years I have marched in many rallies, organized many talks and films and panel discussions, participated in many debates, etc., in order to raise public consciousness about the roots of oppression, and about the terrible suffering of the powerless. My first book, "The Postmodern Prince," examined the origins of the Left's contemporary crisis and made the case for a unified, strategy-oriented, international Leftist movement to usher in a new form of civilization. Right now, I have two main concerns. The first is the crisis of capitalism, and the opportunities and dangers this has created for a radical politics. My second, related area of research and political commitment is opposing human exterminationism on a global scale - that is, our war against the other animals, whom we enslave, torture, and kill in the thousands of millions. I am presently at work editing a book called "On the Animal Question," which, among other things, argues that a Left or socialist politics which does not place our enslavement of other beings at its center, conceptually and politically, cannot possibly succeed: "speciesism" is not merely one more "ism," but in fact lies at the root of every form of social domination.