Join us on Saturday, April 1 at 2PM EST for our fifth reading group session of the series focused on Democratic Confederalism! Please do not forget to register here.

This series covers theories and history of democratic confederalism as practiced by the Kurdish Freedom Movement. The sessions started with an introduction of the historical context and overview, and then moved to Öcalan’s theories of history and democratic civilization. After reading about state and class-based societies and capitalist modernity, we are now diving into democratic confederalism, followed by social ecology, as alternatives. We’ll end the series with a discussion of women’s liberation and eco-feminism and how these concepts and practices relate to democratic confederalism. 

In the April session, we will explore Democratic Confederalism as a system of governance. You can find the readings through the folder linked here.

We will be reading:

The Dimension of Moral and Political Society (Democratic Society), in Ocalan’s Sociology of freedom, pp. 243-249

The Dimension of Democratic Confederalist Society, in Ocalan’s Sociology of freedom, pp. 256-265

Murray Bookchin, The Communalist Project, pp. 1-19, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-communalist-project.pdf 

Murray Bookchin, The Meaning of Confederalism https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-meaning-of-confederalism