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Academy of Social Science retweeted
plutobooks.com/product/manif… Manifesto of the Democratic Communal Society The New Writings of Abdullah Öcalan The book is now live on the Pluto website and ready for pre-order!
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We are excited to announce Issue 02 of Democratic Modernity, titled The Commune. academyofsocialscience.org/i…
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The issue features contributions from Nik Matheou and the Editorial Collective, Mustafa Karasu, Mechthild Exo, Mathijs van de Sande and Gaard Kets, Abdullah Öcalan, Shahrzad Arshadi, Bengi Akbulut, Targol Mesbah, Ana Paula Morel, Munduruku Wakoborũn, Salima Tasdemir and Pat Huff.
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On the cover and in the Issue, the beautiful artwork from @monacaron . Together, they explore the legacy of the Paris Commune, the necessity of women's liberation, decolonial feminism, cultural resistance, and Indigenous struggles to reclaim the commons.
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The fourth volume of Öcalan’s Manifesto of Democratic Civilization is now available in English at: pmpress.org/index.php/produc… @PMPressOrg @Democratic_Mode @Vigil4Ocalan
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In this volume, Öcalan emerges not only as a strategist for resolving the Kurdish question but as a visionary for democratizing the entire region. He closes with urgent questions that speak directly to our global moment: How should we live? What must we do? And where do we begin?
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Academy of Social Science retweeted
#ÖzelProgram 🔸Havîn Güneşer : Kürt Halk Önderi Abdullah Öcalan'ın ve arkadaşlarının özgürlüğü olmadan Kürt sorununun çözüldüğüne inanmak mümkün görünmemektedir Canlı Yayın 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=YfPsQ_jS… jintv.net/tr/ #JinTvHaber
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In "Silent Scream" Aslı Filiz describes the process and meaning behind the realization of the beautiful artwork for the cover of Issue number 1 of Democratic Modernity. The article is now available online! academyofsocialscience.org/2…
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My hope is that Silent Scream stands as both a witness and a voice insisting that the experiences of Êzîdî women be seen, remembered, and carried forward.
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This commune proposes that we can and must make revolutionary change, now, by changing patterns of everyday life and popular participation rather than waiting to take state power and then transform society.
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Instances where communities escaped state and capitalist control and created forms of autonomous participatory governance include the Zapatistas in Mexico and Rojava in Syria. Yet urban communities can also appropriate institutions within the system, to resist the state system.
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Academics — at least critical academics — are increasingly engaged in writing works that sound like they are meant to change the world, in an institutional context designed to ensure there is almost no possibility they might actually do so.
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Since Öcalan’s words really are, before anything else they might be, a form of political action, their ultimate meaning can only be known by what they do."
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Democratic confederalism has the potential to overcome the disadvantages stemming from the nation-state system. At the same time, it is the most appropriate means for politicizing society. Each community can structure and express itself autonomously as a political unit.
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The figures of the mother, the woman guerilla and the woman politician are reduced to flesh in the colonial world by rendering them unworthy to live, criminal, indocile and undisciplined through different technologies mainly, killings, police violence and imprisonment.
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The bodies and speech of women connect Kurds to life, to the world and word, in unpredictable ways inciting new takhayyuls against capture, marginalized by the symbolic order of the Turkish state.
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