Beyond State, Power, and Violence
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Beyond State, Power, and Violence

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Beyond State, Power, and Violence

About this book

After the dissolution of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) in 2002, internal discussions ran high, and fear and uncertainty about the future of the Kurdish freedom movement threatened to unravel the gains of decades of organizing and armed struggle. From his prison cell, Abdullah Öcalan intervened by penning his most influential work to date: Beyond State, Power, and Violence. With a stunning vision of a freedom movement centered on women's liberation, democracy, and ecology, Öcalan helped reinvigorate the Kurdish freedom movement by providing a revolutionary path forward with what is undoubtedly the furthest-reaching definition of democracy the world has ever seen. Here, for the first time, is the highly anticipated English translation of this monumental work.

Beyond State, Power, and Violence is a breathtaking reconnaissance into life without the state, an essential portrait of the PKK and the Kurdish freedom movement, and an open blueprint for leftist organizing in the twenty-first century, written by one of the most vitally important political luminaries of today.

By carefully analyzing the past and present of the Middle East, Öcalan evaluates concrete prospects for the Kurdish people and arrives with his central proposal: recreate the Kurdish freedom movement along the lines of a new paradigm based on the principles of democratic confederalism and democratic autonomy. In the vast scope of this book, Öcalan examines the emergence of hierarchies and eventually classes in human societies and sketches his alternative, the democratic-ecological society. This vision, with a theoretical foundation of a nonviolent means of taking power, has ushered in a new era for the Kurdish freedom movement while also offering a fresh and indispensable perspective on the global debate about a new socialism. Öcalan's calls for nonhierarchical forms of democratic social organization deserve the careful attention of anyone interested in constructive social thought or rebuilding society along feminist and ecological lines.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Andrej Grubačić
  6. Preface: In Defense of a People
  7. One: Social Reality and the Individual
  8. Two: Hierarchical Statist Society: The Birth of Slave Society
  9. Three: The Statist Society: The Formation of Slave Society
  10. Four: Feudal Statist Society
  11. Five: The Democratic and Ecological Society
  12. Six: A Blueprint for a Democratic and Ecological Society
  13. Seven: Chaos in the Middle East Civilization and Ways Out
  14. Eight: The Current Situation in the Middle East and Probable Developments
  15. Nine: The Kurdish Phenomenon and the Kurdish Question in the Chaos of the Middle East
  16. Ten: The PKK Movement: Critique, Self-Critique, and Its Reconstruction
  17. Eleven: Contribution to the Debate about the Refoundation of the PKK
  18. Twelve: The Role of the ECtHR and the EU in the Lawsuit against Abdullah Öcalan
  19. Thirteen: An Identity That Must Be Accurately Defined
  20. Afterword
  21. Appendix: Letter
  22. Annex A: Modern History of Turkey
  23. Annex B: Chronology of the Recent History of Kurdistan
  24. Annex C: Chronology of the PKK
  25. Notes
  26. Index
  27. About the Contributors
  28. Publications by Abdullah Öcalan in English
  29. About PM Press
  30. Friends of PM Press
  31. Department of Anthropology and Social Change