Red Threads is delighted to interview Tekoşîna Anarşîst (Anarchist Struggle), an international volunteer unit who fought ISIS as part of SDF and remained in Syria to support the Rojava Revolution.
i feel like if you leave out of the equation the support of the most powerful state in the world ie usa supporting the stateless projectof rojava you kind of get a different perspective of rojavabeing some kind ofproof of concept for statelessness - people should be honest about this and the pros and cons of borrowing an army from apowerful state with its own interests since those interests stopped aligning and while i sincerely hope it works out, the revolution of chavismo and cuba have had to do all this stuff far longer without the help or neutrality and support of the fourth reich army...
and for all the talk of process etc how much actual land reform or anti capitalist redistribution has been done inside the bordersof.rojava? outsideof the kurds howmuch support do they have?
finally if pkk aligned militias are arming and supporting your allegedly stateless project, are you actually stateless?
please understand that i am not critiquing what people have done to survive. but the claim that rojava is some proof of concept of stateless anarchism despite having borders prisons a leader and being materially integrated with the israelbacked form isis fascist is ridiculous.
if theyd just built an actual state.they would have had zero.support from the us or western anarchists but at least their fate would not be in the hands of jolani, israel and the usa.
i am not making a moral case here that it was right or wrong to do this.i am saying that claiming that a strategicnon agression pact with fascism should be seen in the same light as stalin failing to get any support from the west against fascismand doing a non agression pact to put off theinvasion of theussr-the claim that this is some rupture with all history before it is patently ridiculous-
i feel like if you leave out of the equation the support of the most powerful state in the world ie usa supporting the stateless projectof rojava you kind of get a different perspective of rojavabeing some kind ofproof of concept for statelessness - people should be honest about this and the pros and cons of borrowing an army from apowerful state with its own interests since those interests stopped aligning and while i sincerely hope it works out, the revolution of chavismo and cuba have had to do all this stuff far longer without the help or neutrality and support of the fourth reich army...
and for all the talk of process etc how much actual land reform or anti capitalist redistribution has been done inside the bordersof.rojava? outsideof the kurds howmuch support do they have?
finally if pkk aligned militias are arming and supporting your allegedly stateless project, are you actually stateless?
please understand that i am not critiquing what people have done to survive. but the claim that rojava is some proof of concept of stateless anarchism despite having borders prisons a leader and being materially integrated with the israelbacked form isis fascist is ridiculous.
if theyd just built an actual state.they would have had zero.support from the us or western anarchists but at least their fate would not be in the hands of jolani, israel and the usa.
i am not making a moral case here that it was right or wrong to do this.i am saying that claiming that a strategicnon agression pact with fascism should be seen in the same light as stalin failing to get any support from the west against fascismand doing a non agression pact to put off theinvasion of theussr-the claim that this is some rupture with all history before it is patently ridiculous-