Status Updates From Revolution in Rojava: Democ...

Chapter 1️⃣2️⃣

Key points 🔑

1. “…the Western powers [do not] support Rojava, which is […] a project to carve out a society outside capitalist modernity & Western interventionism.”

2. A communal, democratized economy controlled by the citizen body

3. No large landholdings have been expropriated

4. Women’s cooperatives

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Chapter 🔟

Key points 🔑

1. The 1st school for disabled & special needs students was opened on February 1, 2016.

2. The persecution & repression of educating in the native Kurdish language was finally reversed.

3. Schools strived to rid curriculums of statist, hierarchical, patriarchal-sexist & racist content.

Chapter 9️⃣ Key notes 🔑

1. Rojava’s justice system is restorative & similar to small radical democratic movements like those of the Zapatistas.

2. The Asayîş (Security Forces wing) protect society, as distinguished from the police who protect the state. The Asayîş are mixed-gender.

Reflections ✏️

To reiterate, Rojava turned destruction & chaos into something beautiful & inspirational

This book is a bit of a narrative challenge. It was groundbreaking as a chronicle in its time, but it has such a dense academic style and it’s so encyclopedic it is a slog. That said, solid for research (tho not exactly offering a critical perspective)

As I’m reading this book, I am getting teary eyed because we honestly had a glimmer of hope in the Middle East from Rojava, but the powers that be want to crush that 💔