'... the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the #
PKK had already started to critically reflect on the concept of the nation state. None of the traditional homelands of the Kurds were exclusively Kurdish. A state founded and controlled by #
Kurds would thus automatically host large minority groups, creating the potential for the repression of ethnic and religious minorities in the same way the Kurds themselves had been repressed for many years. As such, a Kurdish state increasingly came to be seen as a continuation of, rather than a solution to, the existing problems in the region. '
There must be people like #
Ocalan working for coherent solutions in #
EasternEurope around #
Ukraine and #
Yugoslavia ....
'... the only way out of the crisis in the Middle East is the establishment of a democratic confederal system “that will derive its strength directly from the people, and not from globalization based on nation states.” According to the imprisoned rebel leader, “neither the capitalist system nor the pressure of imperialist forces will lead to democracy; except to serve their own interests. The task is to assist in developing a grassroots-based democracy … which takes into consideration the religious, ethnic and class differences in society.” ... '
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Ocalan and an organization of the #
Kurds seem to answer the problems raised by #
Arendt after page 267 on the #
Imperialism section of her book #
OriginsOfTotalitarianism .
Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance
Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy.
