The Ghost of Bookchin Present: Kurdish Nationhood and Fourth World Decolonization
I don’t even know where to start, other than to say this video is one of the most inspiring things I’ve seen in a long time. And that there must have been something Melchizedek new that Abraham never learned….
I have a keen interest in the contrast between so-called “Third World National Liberation” and “Fourth World Decolonization.” The general narrative of Kurdish history for the past 100 or so years has mostly fallen into a drive for Statist, often Marxian, national liberation. But, in what has become a deepening of the Left-wing side of their independence movement, there is now a shift to a remarkable non-statist Fourth World Decolonization orientation. And apparently this is a result of the prison-cell conversion of their main ideologue, Abdullah Öcalan, to the ideas of anarchist Murray Bookchin, contrasting their once stringent adherence to Marxist-Leninism of a modified-Maoist bent.
The theoretical, and quite literal…
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