• PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I don't think there is anything like a consensus on Rojava and the PKK (the party which the YPG operates under), even within segments of the left that follow the same ideology. I think it has to do with fog-of-war, but also with a shitty notion that Rojava is a single cohesive political entity when it is really more of a coalition of ideologically disparate Kurdish groups. I used to think the Rojava and the PKK were the coolest thing ever and now I am way more critical and sceptical of PKK in particular, but there is so much history and context that I feel I'm missing that every time I've come up with some simple take on it I find myself disagreeing with it a month after.

    edit: actually, the YPG operates under the PYD, which was originally established as a Syrian branch of the PKK. Lots of three letter acronyms to learn when studying the Syrian conflict lol

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      a lot of kurds mostly fight for autonomy within syria, they used to not get kurdish language education in school for instance