I’ve posted here before about the Kurdish experiment in social-ecological-feminist radical democracy that’s been unfolding in the unlikeliest circumstances in the northern Syrian region of Rojava. Donald Trump’s sudden announcement of a complete U.S. military withdrawal from Syria now leaves that experiment extremely vulnerable… which puts anti-war* activists into an uncomfortable position. (I add that […]
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Rojava at risk
Posted in Politics, tagged anti-war, Bookchin, foreign policy, Kurdistan, Kurds, Rojava, social ecology, Syria, war on December 19, 2018 | 2 Comments »
The Rojava Experiment
Posted in Politics, tagged Bookchin, Kurdish revolutionary movement, libertarian municipalism, Murray Bookchin, Ocalan, PKK, Rojava, social ecology, Syria on November 29, 2015 | 3 Comments »
Wes Enzinna’s New York Times Magazine article on “The Rojava Experiment” finally gives mainstream recognition to what has been happening among the Kurds of northern Syria. As he writes, “In accordance with a philosophy laid out by a leftist revolutionary named Abdullah Ocalan, Rojavan women had been championed as leaders, defense of the environment enshrined […]
The ecology of Syrian/Kurdish freedom
Posted in Politics, tagged anarchism, eco-anarchism, eco-decentralism, ecopolitics, Kurds, libertarian socialism, Murray Bookchin, PKK, Syria on February 16, 2015 | 5 Comments »
Eco-theorists may recognize the title of this post as a variation on the title of Murray Bookchin’s audacious and deeply influential (for many, including myself) 1982 book The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (pdf here). What’s little known to anyone following recent news about the war in Syria is that an 18,300 sq. […]
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