I mean the PKK and YPG were explicitly Marxist Leninists when founded until they changed to democratic conferederalism.
We can have a debate (well we actually can’t due to anti-sectarianism rules on Hexbear) about whether that is revisionism or opportunism or radical liberalism or dialectical materialism applied to their conditions or whatever or not. I’m not really sold either way.
It’s different to European social democracy, etc. Nationalism can liberatory in the imperial periphery for oppressed demographics (and it can still suck too).
It can be liberatory, if it actually is. What we can see in Syria is them aiding the US in harming Syria. When have US bases ever accompanied any liberatory movement?
I stand corrected… though I tell you this, how drastic are their effects on Syria… I have heard of them blocking wheat exports and taking away oil from the official Arab Syrian Republic, both of which are supposed to be the latter’s exports, eh?
Yep. I believe most oil fields are in the north which is also majority Kurdish. Nice intersection of interests for the us. Map is helpful, if out of date
Calling the YPG communists is about as correct as calling nordic countries communist. The YPG are nationalists.
I mean the PKK and YPG were explicitly Marxist Leninists when founded until they changed to democratic conferederalism.
We can have a debate (well we actually can’t due to anti-sectarianism rules on Hexbear) about whether that is revisionism or opportunism or radical liberalism or dialectical materialism applied to their conditions or whatever or not. I’m not really sold either way.
It’s different to European social democracy, etc. Nationalism can liberatory in the imperial periphery for oppressed demographics (and it can still suck too).
It can be liberatory, if it actually is. What we can see in Syria is them aiding the US in harming Syria. When have US bases ever accompanied any liberatory movement?
Which nationalists? Chauvinists or national liberation fighters, toton de calice…
What national liberation includes US bases?
Ok, so they’re chauvinists and collaborators…
I stand corrected… though I tell you this, how drastic are their effects on Syria… I have heard of them blocking wheat exports and taking away oil from the official Arab Syrian Republic, both of which are supposed to be the latter’s exports, eh?
Give me numbers…
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-06-17/Decoding-the-U-S-oil-theft-campaign-in-Syria-1kHXiR4Uy2s/index.html
Jaysus wept…
Yep. I believe most oil fields are in the north which is also majority Kurdish. Nice intersection of interests for the us. Map is helpful, if out of date