rESEARCH cOMMUNES

Long Histories of Democratic Civilization

Building on the work of previous movements, revolutionaries and intellectuals, Abdullah Öcalan theorizes history as the result of the constant flow of two rivers: state civilization, a five-thousand-year unity of systemic domination and exploitation, and democratic civilization, the historical stream of “moral and political society”, the basis for all human sociality.

This research commune aims to deepen our understanding of this dialectical struggle, and to seek a roughly shared vision of the organic historical unity of state civilization, in order to recover the long pasts and envision alternative futures watered by the democratic river.