Total liberation is the political position that the liberation of humans, non-human animals, and the Earth are facets of the same analysis. Domination does not apply only to one category of being; systems of control over land, animals, and human bodies share common structures and common beneficiaries.
The term emerges from the convergence of anarchism, animal liberation, and earth liberation movements. Where single-issue politics addresses one dimension of domination at a time, total liberation argues that this fragmentation mirrors and reinforces the systems being challenged. A project of human liberation that leaves animal agriculture and ecological extraction untouched has not reached its roots.
From a settler-colonial perspective, total liberation includes the return of land, the end of extractive relationships with the Earth, and the recognition that Indigenous sovereignty and ecological health are not separate questions. Colonialism organized the domination of peoples, animals, and land together; their liberation must be addressed together.