On 12/27/2014 11:50 AM, Amir Taaki wrote: > Article on the YPG using swarming tactics and fast movement to
> outmanoeuvre their enemy:
>
> http://www.janes.com/article/43030/analysis-ypg-the-islamic-state-s-worst-enemy >
> "Relying on speed, stealth, and surprise, it is the archetypal guerrilla
> army, able to deploy quickly to front lines and concentrate its forces
> before quickly redirecting the axis of its attack to outflank and ambush
> its enemy. The key to its success is autonomy. Although operating under
> an overarching tactical rubric, YPG brigades are inculcated with a high
> degree of freedom and can adapt to the changing battlefield."
>
> Video of YPG in action showing how they move around and fight:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxE4hvfGcM&feature=youtu.be >
> Article by David Graeber who recently visited Rojava:
> "No. This is a Genuine Revolution",
>
> https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/no-this-is-a-genuine-revolution/ >
> "The major powers have commitmented themselves to an ideology that say
> real revolutions can no longer happen. Meanwhile, many on the left, even
> the radical left, seem to have tacitly adopted a politics which assumes
> the same, even though they still make superficially revolutionary
> noises. They take a kind of puritanical “anti-imperialist” framework
> that assumes the significant players are governments and capitalists and
> that’s the only game worth talking about. The game where you wage war,
> create mythical villains, seize oil and other resources, set up
> patronage networks; that’s the only game in town."
>
> A truer quote. I've seen this trumpeted often by so-called activists as
> inexcuse for action- that the game is out of our hands, a kind of
> passive counter-productive fatalism that passes off revolutionary
> potential as ploys by the CIA on a grand world stage.
>
> "One of the first places we visited was a police academy (Asayiş).
> Everyone had to take courses in non-violent conflict resolution and
> feminist theory before they were allowed to touch a gun. The
> co-directors explained to us their ultimate aim was to give everyone in
> the country six weeks of police training, so that ultimately, they could
> eliminate police."
> = everyone should be the police :)
>
> "It was remarkable. I’ve spent my life thinking about how we might be
> able to do things like this in some remote time in the future and most
> people think I’m crazy to imagine it will ever be. These people are
> doing it now. If they prove that it can be done, that a genuinely
> egalitarian and democratic society is possible, it will completely
> transform people’s sense of human possibility. Myself, I feel ten years
> younger just having spent 10 days there."
>
> "Capitalists have made a mighty effort these past 30 or 40 years to
> convince people that current economic arrangements – not even
> capitalism, but the peculiar, financialized, semi-feudal form of
> capitalism we happen to have today- is the only possible economic
> system. They’ve put for more effort into that than they have into
> actually creating a viable global capitalist system."
>
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