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.
Overview: Our Goals
- To clarify and systematize Abdullah Öcalan’s historical vision, in dialogue with other intellectual traditions such as Marxism, anarchism, feminism and world-systems theory. On this basis, the commune seeks to develop a research debate capable of analysing the dialectical struggle between state and democratic civilization across time and space.
- To identify concrete case studies – ranging across different periods and geographies – that exemplify how democratic civilization has resisted or been reshaped by the dynamics of state power.
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