béla malina ’s Reviews > The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism > Status Update

Gonna finish the last essay in this collection today. There seems to me, to be a fundamental problem with Öcalans theory. Or let us say I am very skeptical. How likely is it that bottom-up state-less, democratic structures can co-exist on the same territory as monopolies of violence (nation-states)? To me that seems utterly utopian. Nation-states don’t compromise with anarchists. They crush them.