#abdullah ocalan

[probablyasocialecologist]

There is no law that states that a natural society must necessarily develop into a hierarchical and subsequently statist society. There may be a propensity towards such a development, but equating such a propensity with an inevitable, incessant process that has to run its full course would be an erroneous assumption. Viewing the existence of classes as fate has become nothing but an unintended tool for class ideologists.

The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan

[anarchistin]

When Lenin advocated the replacement of the “bourgeois state” by the “proletarian state,” he thought he was engaging in honest and accurate reasoning, but there simply cannot be a “proletarian” version of the state as a social form.

Many since Spartacus have attempted this, but they have all failed. Even the Soviet experiment could not avoid collapse, despite the fact that it was carried out in roughly a third of the world.

The main reason being that the state form exists essentially to serve the lifestyle of the oppressive and exploitative groups and classes. That is why it was created. It cannot provide the form for equality and freedom for those groups and classes who are subjected to oppression and exploitation. Not only is its essence not suitable, its form also contradicts freedom and equality.

— Abdullah Öcalan, Beyond State, Power, and Violence

[ahb-writes]

"Social realities are constructs. People mistakenly believe social institutions and structures to be natural realities because the regimes striving to construct legitimacy for these social systems present them as unchangeable and sacred."

Abdullah Öcalan (author, Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization, 2015)

[kurdishrecognition]

kurdish women demonstrating after the arrest of PKK leader abdullah ocalan, london, united kingdom, 1999 by steve eason

[fujomod3r]

[deadset64]

Comic by the Institute for Social Ecology

[edwordsmyth]

"Capitalism and the nation-state represent the dominant male in its most institutionalised form. Capitalist society is the continuation and culmination of all the old exploitative societies. It is a continuous warfare against society and woman. To put it succinctly, capitalism and the nation-state are the monopolism of the tyrannical and exploitative male.

Breaking down this monopolism will perhaps be more difficult than breaking down the atom. A main objective of capitalist modernity’s ideological hegemony is to obliterate the historic and social facts concerning its conception and its essence. This is because the capitalist economic and societal form is not a social and historical necessity; it is a construct, forged through a complex process. Religion and philosophy have been transformed into nationalism, the divinity of the nation-state. The ultimate goal of its ideological warfare is to ensure its monopoly on thought. Its main weapons to accomplish this are religionism, gender discrimination and scientism as a positivist religion.

Through positivist scientism, capitalism neutralises the academic world and the youth. It convinces them that they have no choice but to integrate with the system, and in return for concessions this integration is assured."

-Abdullah Öcalan

[third-nature]

"The paradigm of a positivist or descriptive science forms another ideological pillar of the nation-state. It fuels nationalist ideology (but also laicism) which has taken the form of a new religion. On the other hand it is one of the ideological foundations of modernity and its dogmata have influenced the social sciences sustainably. Positivism can be circumscribed as a philosophical approach that is strictly confined to the appearance of things, which it equates with reality itself. Since in positivism appearance is reality, anything that has no appearance cannot be part of reality. We know from quantum physics, astronomy, some fields of biology, and even the gist of thought itself that reality occurs in worlds that are beyond observable events. Often our traditional patterns of explanation cannot be applied in these cases. The truth, in the relationship between the observed and the observer, has mystified itself to the extent that it no longer fits any physical scale or definition. Positivism denies this and thus, to an extent, resembles the idol worshipping of ancient times, where the idol constitutes the image of reality."

Abdullah Öcalan