Title: Revolution in #Rojava#
Author: Michael Knapp, Anja Flach,and Ercan Ayboğa
Translated by: Janet Biehl
Place of publication: UK.USA
Publisher: Pluto Press
Release date: 2016.[1]
Even many ostensible revolutionaries nowadays seem to have secretly abandoned the idea that a revolution is actually possible..
Here I am using “revolution” in its classical sense, let’s say: the overthrow of an existing structure of power and the ruling class it supports by a popular uprising of some sort, and its replacement by new forms of bottom-up popular organization. For most of the twentieth century this was not the case: even those revolutionaries who hated the Bolsheviks, for example, supported the revolution itself, even popular uprisings that came to be led by ethno-nationalists were not simply condemned if they were seen to be genuinely popular. There was an obvious reason for this. For most of that time, revolutionaries felt that,whatever temporary complications, history was flowing inevitably in the direction of greater equality and freedom. Those rising up to shake off some form of tyranny, however temporarily confused or distracted, were clearly the agents of that greater movement of liberation.[1]