Saturday marks the inauguration of the Komun academy, a
website launched by a collective of activists launched particularly with the
aim of "finding solutions to both, local, specific problems" for the
various peoples' of the world. The Komun academy also seeks to fight universal
contradictions, which encompasses "women's oppression, ecological crises,
capitalist exploitation, racial supremacy, colonialism, knowledge of
imperialism, poverty, and war".
The website aims to approach critical issues and aid social
movements globally through the ideas of Abdullah Ocalan and the Kurdish
movement.
"As the fundamental units of Democratic Modernity,
people's academies constitute the theoretical groundwork of societal mentality
in favour of freedom", the about section of the website states,
"these units which we could even define as village academies work to
guarantee society's ability to become aware of its own needs and organize
around them, through an ethical-political mentality" the description continues.
The goal of the website is to provide an online outlet to
conduct the work already taking place in thousands of academies across
Kurdistan.
The website is organized around six categories, Democratic
confederalism, Jineologi, Analysis, Columns, Seminars, and the works of
Abdullah Ocalan, a co-founder of the PKK and an ideological inspiration for
many Kurds around the world.
Democratic Confederalism refers to the political system
proposed by the Kurdish freedom movement, which entails the construction of
stateless democracies within the already existing boundaries of nation states.
Coupled with a commitment for the establishment of "democratic
republics", free polities within the nation states that could allow for
democratic confederalism to flourish, the Kurdish freedom movement also hopes
to imbue democratic confederations with the capacity for self-defence.
Democratic confederalism, a form of democracy constructed
inspite of the state, is predicated on the commune form and seeks to delegate
power upwards to the village, town, city and region levels. Women are to share
power in all levels of political decision making.
Jineologi refers to the construction of a "science of
women", dedicated to challenging what the Kurdish freedom movement call
"positivist" forms of knowledge that have gone hand in hand with
justifying and upholding the oppression of women. While the Analyses, Columns
and Seminars sections hope to spread the living examples of radical democracy
that are happening across the world.
The website seeks to distinguish itself from other journals,
and explicitly states that it "does not aim at idealism which will only
appeal to a small section inside society." "Instead, it works to
portray the real struggles that organize themselves around this paradigm all
over the world."
"We want to the agora of the mothers, workers,
labourers, strugglers, rebels, youth, and militants!" the organisers of
the Komun Academy conclude.
To visit the website, go to https://komun-academy.com/
by The Region 30/06/2018
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