The thing is, there is no established, proven "socialist" model that has managed to function in a setting of urban-rural country sized regions with millions of inhabitants in it.
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The thing is, there is no established, proven...The thing is, there is no established, proven "socialist" model that has managed to function in a setting of urban-rural country sized regions with millions of inhabitants in it.
Thats the whole...
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PKK movement had brewed up in endless struggle....PKK movement had brewed up in endless struggle. They are very experienced. There is massive intellectual network that feeds the movement.
PKK has left classical slogans from cold war, the typical...
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Its not an "ethnic" conflict though, its an...Its not an "ethnic" conflict though, its an ideological conflict. Its the loyal Assad fan Baathists they have trouble with.....keep throwing mud though. Its fun to watch your desperation.
I was...
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The conference I went to had academics from the...The conference I went to had academics from the same group as Graeber.
Economy is organized and communes and they have cooperatives basically...at this point. Tev-dem is building the bottom-up...
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http://new-compass.net/articles/bookchin-%C3%B6cal...http://new-compass.net/articles/bookchin-%C3%B6calan-and-dialectics-democracy
has anyone read this btw? I think it represents a good deal of the mentality PKK and Kurdish movement had embraced...
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I see, sorry about that. Did his existentialist...I see, sorry about that. Did his existentialist influence expand much beyond him btw?
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Dude, you told me that Kurds were oppressing...Dude, you told me that Kurds were oppressing other groups and you failed to deliver. Period.
Öcalan does not control the movement directly. And thank god for that. He has been jailed since...
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this last one is a valid question actually....this last one is a valid question actually. Although Marxism in-itself does not base an argument on morality, or a pure timeless morality, each anti-capitalist movement brews up in its own context...
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The academic group's report included these things...The academic group's report included these things above as well.
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Sartre did try to bring Marxism more in line with...Sartre did try to bring Marxism more in line with continental philosophy of his time but then came a whole new wave of people which imo made Sartre's position irrelevant.
jk, I actually haven't...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marxian_econo...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marxian_economists
check Paul Mattick as well.
Are you looking for specifically market economics or does it include economic history?
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its pretty amazing whats happening, really.
I...its pretty amazing whats happening, really.
I just hope they sort out the security problem. Thats the greatest threat to the movement. An invasion and a defensive mechanism are both threats. They...
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the classical argument against capitalism isn't...the classical argument against capitalism isn't that it is an immoral system...the humanistic side came in later as ideology started to be viewed as a more dominant factor.
The struggle is...
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Alright, this is indeed an argument I hold. For...Alright, this is indeed an argument I hold. For instance, I believe Rojava revolution has the potential of a socialism but people accuse it of not being clear enough. To that, I claim that rarely...
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I just dug the news channel that makes this a...I just dug the news channel that makes this a thing by the way, RUDAW TV....makes its broadcast through Turkish satellite and is connected to Barzani as well as the TRT(Turkish state tv)
Keep...
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For a while you had me believing this BS. I...For a while you had me believing this BS. I realized how stupid I was when I asked this to Rojava official. For some reason I took you guys too seriously and asked about this in the conference and...
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Well in any case, you are the wrong person to dig...Well in any case, you are the wrong person to dig the nationalist side of PKK with. I was trying to get 870 and Tim Cornelis' view regarding the legitimacy of Kurdish independence movement and it...
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Would you mind giving some solid proofs on this?...Would you mind giving some solid proofs on this? You know I have been actually persistently looking for it and the only thing I came across was a so-called announcement of Salih Müslim last year on...
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and not their decades old struggle at all? Thats...and not their decades old struggle at all? Thats fine with you? The Turkish handling of the Kurds or the Syrian handling of the Kurds is okay?
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Quoting this so you get some info with people...Quoting this so you get some info with people from actual insight
You guys think its the armed gangs that are running rojava as well as the political structures of Kurdish movement in Turkey........
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there is no change in my argument...I am...there is no change in my argument...I am adressing the hostility to Kurdish movement. Not just in relation to Daesh, in relation to Syria, Iraq, KRG, Iran and Turkey and even Hüda-par as well.
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yea yea yea I have noticed its a dead end to...yea yea yea I have noticed its a dead end to discuss that with you guys.
The question is, this nationalist gang of bourgeoisie ideas led by a Stalinist structure that represents the Kurdish...
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is the fact that at least Kurds are an heavily...is the fact that at least Kurds are an heavily oppressed people an appeal to emotion or an empirical fact Tim Cornelis? Or the fact that they are being attacked by radical Islamists that will make...
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did you really have to take what I say out of...did you really have to take what I say out of context? You dont have to go anywhere....but the bs critique AS IF you are there is making me sick. Everyone here knows everything. Maşallah.
You...
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nope, I am scared of war and am not ready to face...nope, I am scared of war and am not ready to face death as well as putting my family through it. Thats why I don't go...and even then, I talked to the academics who go there and one of them told me...