content tagged with An Anarchist Reading of Öcalan

Ercan Jan Aktaş

Building a communalist revolution through the Rojava experience

AN ANARCHIST READING OF ÖCALAN - V

Building a communalist revolution through the Rojava experience

The authoritarian legacy of real socialism and the hollowed-out representative structures of liberal democracies no longer respond to humanity’s quest for freedom.

7 September 2025 Ercan Jan Aktaş

Ercan Jan Aktaş

The codes of democratic modernity through the critique of capitalist modernity

AN ANARCHIST READING OF ÖCALAN - III

The codes of democratic modernity through the critique of capitalist modernity

Öcalan’s concept of “democratic modernity” is a holistic counter-paradigm to capitalist modernity’s centralized state apparatus, industrialist economy, and nation-state formation.

19 August 2025 Ercan Jan Aktaş

Ercan Jan Aktaş

The construction of actually existing socialist practices

AN ANARCHIST READING OF ÖCALAN - II

The construction of actually existing socialist practices

From the late 1990s onward, Öcalan interpreted the collapse of the Soviet Union not merely as a victory of imperialism but also as the structural failure of state-centric socialism.

11 August 2025 Ercan Jan Aktaş

Ercan Jan Aktaş

Will the revolution be with or without the state?

AN ANARCHIST READING OF ÖCALAN - I

Will the revolution be with or without the state?

For Öcalan, who declared that “the state is one of the most dangerous inventions in human history; it is the crystallized form of monopoly on power," the idea of a “stateless democracy” occupies a central place in his ideological transformation.

7 August 2025 Ercan Jan Aktaş