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. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Feminism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination direct democracy, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination ecology are also important to her, and the military is replaced by voluntary militias.
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History
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was initially established in 1978 as a liberation movement that used Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Murray Bookchin, and many other philosophers and used them to create a new form of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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:
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Eco-Anarchism - While we have small debates about how anarchism should save the environment, but we're actually pretty chill.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Minarcho-Socialism - He is very similar to my ideology.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Socialism - We are literally the same, mom.
- Almost every other ideology in the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination LibLeft quadrant.
Frenemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ba'athism - Filthy authoritarian and I still hate him, but saved me from Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neo-Ottomanism.
Enemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neoconservatism - He stopped supporting me, and instead started supporting Turkey.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Islamic Theocracy & Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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