The communes are the basis of the Academy, and bring together intellectuals, activists, and other interested people, to create collective knowledge and resources on a given area of research.
Communes are formed within the Academy and are organized according to the given group’s needs and aims, e.g., with sub-committees and particular areas of discussion. The aim is to make the Academy a dynamic space for research and discussion, while creating consistency among those who think and write about the vision of democratic civilization.
Democratic Civilization | Peace | Democratic Foodways | Democratic Confederalism | Sociology of Freedom
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.
Peace
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Democratic Foodways
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Democratic Confederalism
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Sociology of Freedom
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