{"id":592064,"date":"2022-04-06T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T11:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1577702"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T11:40:59","slug":"the-kurdistan-freedom-movement-just-launched-a-new-resource-for-the-global-struggle-against-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/06\/the-kurdistan-freedom-movement-just-launched-a-new-resource-for-the-global-struggle-against-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kurdistan Freedom Movement just launched a new resource for the global struggle against capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kurdistan Freedom Movement has launched a new initiative to build strategy and connections in the global struggle against capitalism.<\/p>\n

The Academy of Democratic Modernity<\/h2>\n

The new web-based platform is dubbed the Academy of Democratic Modernity<\/a>\u00a0(ADM). It aims to be a space for revolutionary thought and strategy. The site looks at revolution through the lens of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement’s new paradigm, based on three foundational pillars of social ecology<\/a>, radical democracy<\/a>, and women’s freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new paradigm is inspired<\/a> by the defence writings of Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) co-founder Abdullah \u00d6calan, who has been imprisoned for the last 23 years by the Turkish state<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The movement sees the global peoples’ struggles going on today – for example in Kurdistan<\/a>, Ukraine<\/a> or Palestine<\/a> – as the continuation of the ever-present struggles of people against power, which have existed throughout history. Today’s struggles are being waged by ‘democratic forces’ against ‘capitalist modernity’.<\/p>\n

Capitalist modernity<\/a> is the dominant global system today, characterised by a drive for unending profits over people, by the nation state and by imperialist oppression.<\/p>\n

The Kurdistan Freedom Movement opposes capitalist modernity, and rejects<\/a> the concept of nation states. Instead, the movement seeks to bring ‘democratic modernity’ to the forefront through the practice of radical democracy.<\/p>\n

These ideas<\/a> have been taking shape in Northeast Syria since the 2012 Rojava revolution. The revolutionaries of Rojava have created<\/a> a system of governing society from the bottom up, through communes cooperating together at the street and neighbourhood level. These then send delegates to cooperate at regional and wider levels. This system is known as democratic confederalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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