Historical Roots of Hierarchy: Neolithic society – Fall from the Golden Age?

Join on Sunday, October 30th 2PM EDT/11AM PDT for our second reading group session! We will continue our discussion of theories and practices of democratic confederalism as practiced by the Kurdish Movement. You can find the readings through the folder linked here.

Please register for the Zoom link here.
We will be reading:

• "Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization, Volume I - Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings,” pp. 156-160

• Donald H. Matthews and Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Öcalan’s Manifesto and the Challenge of Transcending Centricity, pp. 67-78. “Introduction,” “Against hierarchy.” and “Focus on patriarchy."

Recommended:

• Graeber & Wengrow on Neolithic Matriarchy p. 221-226, 243-249 (in the online version in our google drive folder; for the print version, use pp. 214-220; 236-240)

• Pp. 3-9, “The Challenges of a Kurdish Ecofeminist Perspective: Maria Mies, Abdullah Öcalan, and the Praxis of Jineolojî.” Capitalism Nature Socialism.

• Graeber’s Preface to Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization, Volume I - on Ocalan’s method and approach to history