Towards Stateless Democracy: Ideological Foundations of Rojava Autonomy and the Kurdish Movement in Turkey

A Word From Editors......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Nation-state and Power......Page 10
The State and its Religious Roots......Page 11
Nation-State and Homogeneity......Page 12
Nation-State and Society......Page 13
Positivist Science......Page 14
Sexism......Page 15
The Kurds and the Nation-State......Page 16
The Heritage of the Society and the Accumulation of Historical Knowledge......Page 17
Ethics and Political Awareness......Page 18
Democratic Confederalism and a Democratic Political System......Page 19
Democratic Confederalism and Self-Defence......Page 20
Conclusion......Page 21
Principles of Democratic Confederalism......Page 22
Problems of the Peoples in the Middle East and Possible Ways to a Solution......Page 23
A Stalinist turned ecologist......Page 31
To cut the messenger's head......Page 33
The best Anarchist is a former Marxist......Page 34
A Revolutionary City – a City Revolution......Page 35
Living in a Ziggurat......Page 36
Parallel Stories......Page 37
A Principle of Hope......Page 40
The Kurds against Sumer......Page 41
The Janus-faced State......Page 42
Amargi!......Page 44
Azadî Means Freedom......Page 45
The Women's Issue??......Page 46
Women's Map of Kurdistan......Page 48
Patriarchy International......Page 52
Feminism Means Freedom......Page 53
Capitalism as a reduction......Page 55
State vs. Capitalism......Page 56
A Non-state Post-capitalism?......Page 57
Down to Earth......Page 59