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On 2014.12.27 14:59, Amir Taaki wrote:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/rojava
>
> 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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