Defining militarism as the most advanced anti-society monopolism, Öcalan writes: “The military has always been the power that has penetrated, controlled, and subjugated society regardless of the form of the state, but it reached its apex in the era of the middle class (bourgeois) and under nation-state monopoly.” With “Sociology of Freedom”, the third volume…
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…
19 July marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Rojava revolution. To mark the occasion, the Academy of Democratic Modernity spoke with Asya Abdullah, coordinator of the women’s movement in northern and eastern Syria, about the women’s revolution and its prehistory. We want to talk to you today about the women’s revolution in…
The people of Rojava pose a core threat to any existing government—especially those with imperialist ambitions—by showing the world a viable model of peaceful multi-ethnic coexistence, grounded in lived political, cultural, and ecological autonomy. Ten years ago, an auspicious experiment started alongside one of the most atrocious bloodsheds of this century. In July 2012, as…
Ecology is one of the three pillars of the paradigm of Democratic Confederalism, the political-theoretical concept of the Kurdish Freedom Movement. Besides democracy and gender liberation, ecology has been mentioned explicitly as a dimension in this concept since 2005. However to date, ecology is less discussed and practiced than the two other pillars. Ecological destruction…
Democratic Confederalism, as defined by Abdullah Öcalan is the ethical, political, and administrative expression of society – as a historical and sociological structure – in which different identities, factions and groups coexist in dialectical harmony. By this we are not referring to a classical confederal structure consisting of states, but the confederal unity of societal…
In her essay “On Revolution”, political theorist Hannah Arendt analyzes and compares the French, American and other revolutions to determine the “outstanding characteristics of the revolutionary spirit”. She recognizes these within the possibility of starting things with a new beginning, as well as in people’s collective action. Arendt is especially concerned with the question of…
Especially at a time when humanity is in deep crisis and depression, discussing Rêber Apo’s (Abdullah Öcalan) thoughts that will be a solution to this chaos and crisis will be guiding in terms of finding solutions to the problems of capitalism in the world, especially in Europe in the coming period. I believe it will…
A Third World War has been raging in the world for more than 30 years. Its centre is neither the former Soviet republics nor the countries of the Far East. For three decades now, the peoples of the Middle East have been feeling most acutely the massive dislocations caused by the ideological-organizational crisis of capitalist…
We need solutions for the crisis in the Middle East. The chaos in the region has been ongoing since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire one century ago. Since the first Gulf War in 1991, the region between the Maghreb states and Pakistan has been in a deep state of seemingly endless crisis. Outside of…
