The Syrian war and the Kurds under a Marxist and Feminist perspective.
By: Massimo D'Angelo.
The aim of the essay is to analyze one of the main player involved in the Syrian war. More specifically, we will focus on the role played by the Kurdish fighters in the conflict which started in Syria in 2011. Hence, for the purpose of this research we are not aimed at analyzing all the aspects of the conflict, but we will limit our research on the role of the Kurdish fighters under a marxist and feminist perspective. In the first part, we will describe the ideology of Abdullah Öcalan (the leader of the Kurdish liberation movement), comparing it with the more relevant marxist ideologies, mainly about nationalism and building-state. Then, we will describe the model of direct democracy which the Kurds have attempted to establish in the Rojava region. In the second part, we will look at the role played by the Women Kurdish fighters: a description of their female division, the YPG and how did they developed the concept of self-defense, in accordance with Abdullah Öcalan’s ideology. [1]
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