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Συντάκτης: Amir Taaki
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Προς: System undo crew
Αντικείμενο: Re: [unSYSTEM] The YPG: anarchist guerilla army (Rojava / Syrian Kurdistan)
check this picture of pkk youth:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/12/kurdish-clashes-south-turkey-turn-deady-20141227163218765952.html

On 2014-12-27 17:32, Aleksandr Charkov wrote:
> https://libcom.org/files/images/news/B0e8OhmIEAAaM2b.jpg
>
> 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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