I don't know if Ocalan or the PKK are based or cringe, please let me know.
Ocalan and The Rojavan revolutionaries are good and cool. They made some bad decisions and let the US in instead of cutting a deal with Assad but they were in a shitty position so its hard to criticise too harshly.
Dang, this is a real banger. One of my friends doesn't get it, though, and I accidentally broke my voice box and can't explain it to them. Could one of you help a comrade out?
In prison Ocalan became a theory head, and he synthesized a kind of hodge-podge anarcho-feminist revolutionary theory that Rojava is ostensibly based on. I'm not familiar with the specific quote but in context this is likely about challenging the assumed role of men in society to uplift women's position.
Listen to Robert "Bellingcat" Evans' podcast, the women's war on iHeart Radio™. He's :ursus-hexagonia: but it has a fair amount of primary sources about what's been going on over there. It seems very feminist and vaguely anti-capitalist
Listen to Robert “Bellingcat” Evans’ podcast
:bugs-no: the man is an op. Funded by the feds.
I know that, but it's still the most in depth reporting on rojava you can get as far as I'm aware
I dont know. its one of those grey areas were you have to be there to tell. On one hand they are used as a pretext to mantain us ocupation in syria and give away syrian oil to israel. Iranian intelligence decided to arm them a while ago but they turned against iranian interest later. So most of their neighbours dont like them or trust them.
On the other hand maybe in their place i would do the same. Since its a hard position to be.
