History

Since the 1980’s, Abdullah Öcalan has always used the international day of struggle of the working class as an opportunity to analyse the situation of the world socialist movement and to derive perspectives for the struggle for self-determination and socialism in Kurdistan and the Middle East. After his abduction and imprisonment on the 15th of…

The development of authority and hierarchy, even before the establishment of a class society, represents one of the most important turning points in history; a point that laid the foundation for patriarchal power. The institutionalization of patriarchy as a system to define and organize society and people would eventually transform into state power. A discussion…

Perhaps the most important point, however, where the movement is inspired by Marx, and which already resonates in its description as a “struggling movement”, is the conception of Marxian thought as a “philosophy of practice”. The movement’s theoretical debates are not for the sake of being opinionated or filling magazine pages, but for gaining knowledge…

On 19 July 2012, the Rojava revolution began. How did it all begin? What stages were taken on the way to the tenth anniversary? And what danger does Turkey pose to the revolution? The Academy of Democratic Modernity spoke about these and other questions with Berivan Khaled, the co-chair of the Autonomous Administration of Northern…

In addressing the question of how capitalist modernity was able to assert itself in Central Europe, the “History and Resistance” initiative in Germany dealt, among other things, with Max Weber’s work on the spirit of capitalism. His theses and the discussion that developed on the basis of his analysis, will be shared here in parts….