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