Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
On Sunday last week, Damascus fell to Salafi terrorists and other imperialist-aligned forces. Regardless of the flaws of the ousted government, this is a horrible situation for the Syrian proletariat as well as for the people of Palestine, Lebanon and others. We can only hope for the perseverance of the Syrian workers and the remaining anti-colonial resistance.
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Rhetoric is easy, but in practice, Rojava has no proper state, no vanguard party. Not wanting to be capitalist doesn’t really matter if their economy is de facto capitalist, even if the welfare net is larger than in most capitalist countries or there’s more local democratic participation.
It feels like I’m repeating myself at this point so I’m going to end it here
OK. I will just say that one must examine Rojava as it exists in its current conditions, and not compare it to some ideal.