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The militants of Rojava, and the autonomous society they've built, teach us how to kindle hope for the tireless fight against oppression.
Drawing on three years living and working in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), journalist Matt Broomfield argues the militant Kurdish movement can help the Western left relearn its commitment to hope in hopeless times. The bloodshed and chaos of the Syrian Civil War have paradoxically produced our generation's most significant revolution. Firsthand observations from the heart of Rojava's movement inform Broomfield's critical engagement with its theory and practice and, inevitably, its compromises and contradictions. In the face of crises set to define the coming centuryâproxy conflict, resource competition, state collapse, climate catastropheâthe Kurdish movement has produced an unexpected, utopian response: an autonomous society organized outside of the nation-state, run by direct democracy and along feminist and ecological principles, surviving despite overwhelming military opposition.
The revolutionary movement of Rojava and its people shed light on struggle, strategy, and enduranceâhow and why to fight for revolution in the face of nearly impossible odds. Hope Without Hope carries on the long tradition of history, absurdist philosophy, and radical thought that has studied how anti-fascist and anti-colonial movements answer defeat and repression with a revolutionary faith in transformation. Only by understanding this history can we pursue the steadfast work of organizing for long-term revolutionary change in our seemingly hopeless age.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Rojava Revolution
- Chapter 2: ISIS, Rojava, and the Non-State Alternative
- Chapter 3: Revitalizing and Reorganizing the Left
- Chapter 4: âCould It Be?â
- Chapter 5: Apocalypse as Revelation
- Chapter 6: Copium Strategies
- Chapter 7: More Copium Strategies
- Chapter 8: The Revolutionary Leap of Faith
- Chapter 9: Hope After the Holocaust
- Chapter 10: Hope After Death
- Chapter 11: Hope in the Climate Apocalypse
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments