Democratic Confederalism is a left-libertarian, culturally progressive ideology and political system coined by Kurdish politician Abdullah Öcalan that currently exists in Rojava, a de facto autonomous region in northern Syria. Democratic confederalism believes in a system of administrative councils elected by the people that allow local communities to exercise autonomous control over their assets while linking to other communities via a network of confederal councils. Private property is abolished, in favour of "property of use" which lets individuals use infrastructure and land, but restricts them from turning it into a private enterprise. 
Feminism, 
direct democracy, and 
ecology are also important to her, and the military is replaced by voluntary militias.
She is the child of 
Bookchin Communalism and shares many opinions with her father. Her mother is 
Libertarian Socialism, who she is also very similar to.
History
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was initially established in 1978 as a liberation movement that used 
Marxist-Leninist ideals. As the party became less radical over time, Abdullah Öcalan, one of its founders, drifted further from the organization and began looking for a form of 
socialism that was more distant from the authoritarian characteristics of the Soviet Union. When he was captured and arrested by Turkey in 1999, he worked further on the Kurdish question using his access to numerous western philosophical texts. He eventually came across the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Murray Bookchin, and many other philosophers and used them to create a new form of 
democratic socialism called democratic confederalism. In 2005, Öcalan published his first work, titled Declaration of Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan, which laid out the foundations of his new ideology.
Soon after, the PKK adopted his program and sought to put his concept into full effect. Many political parties came together with the intention of bringing the ideals of democratic confederalism across Kurdistan. The Syrian Civil War brought an opportunity to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) to declare autonomy over Rojava, which soon became an autonomous region that implemented a democratic confederalist government, which is currently identified a libertarian socialist federated semi-direct democracy.
How to draw
Here's how to draw Democratic Confederalism:
- Draw a ball
- Give it three horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: yellow (#FEF300), red (#F1121F) and green (#008642), the colours of the TEV-DEM flag.
- Draw a 5-pointed yellow star (same shade) in the middle of the red stripe.
- Draw the eyes.
and you're done!
Relationships
Friends:
Eco-Anarchism - While we have small debates about how anarchism should save the environment, but we're actually pretty chill.
Minarcho-Socialism - He is very similar to my ideology.
Libertarian Socialism - We are literally the same, mom.- Almost every other ideology in the
LibLeft quadrant.
Frenemies
Ba'athism - Filthy authoritarian and I still hate him, but saved me from 
Neo-Ottomanism.
Enemies
Neoconservatism - He stopped supporting me, and instead started supporting Turkey.
Islamic Theocracy & Neo-Ottomanism - Invaded me for ethnic cleansing, and is basically the new ISIS.
Further reading
Books
- The Philosophy of Social Ecology (1995) by Murray Bookchin
- Declaration of Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan (2005) by Abdulah Öcalan
- Democratic Confederalism (2011) by Abdulah Öcalan