BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Sunnyways Sunnyways:
Kurds would be less trouble.
Kurds are actually nice people. Even their
commies are nice people.
Not too many Middle Eastern Muslims look to a Jewish socialist from the Bronx for inspiration:
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Upon Murray Bookchin’s death, the PKK issued a two-page statement hailing him as “one of the greatest social scientists of the twentieth century.” “He introduced us to the thought of social ecology, and for that he will be remembered with gratitude by humanity,” the statement’s authors wrote. “We undertake to make Bookchin live in our struggle. We will put this promise into practice as the first society which establishes a tangible democratic confederalism.” Had my father lived to see his ideas enacted in Rojava and southeastern Turkey, he would have been profoundly moved to know that his revolutionary spirit had been reborn among a generation of the Kurdish people. He would have taken heart that Rojava was one more historical instance of the desire for freedom that he himself felt so deeply and to which he dedicated his life.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/06/1 ... democracy/