That part was hard for me too.

I am a bit conflicted with this article. One one hand I think I understand the intentions behind it, but It seems to me that it confuses opportunistic vanguardism with pragmatism.

Yes, Lenin managed to convince enough people to hijack the February Revolution and concentrate all the power to the party himself. To my understanding, he accomplished that mainly by using the wording of the actual bottom-up revolution. So the problem for me is not a matter of principle(s), but how to be sharp enough as a movement not to be fooled by people using a familiar narrative, while trying to achieve their own goals. Something like that.

Edit: Meaning, “pragmatism” was the bait. Nothing more.

From the top of my head, I think PKK was actually a stalinist organisation. At some point in the (early?) 90’s there was a conscious introspection because the movement was not effective. The result of this introspection lead to an internal growth incorporating ecology and feminism, and the authoritarian structure was dropped. And that’s not an approach we see often enough.

For me the main point I got from their story has to do with the importance of reflecting on our theories and actions, and use this input to evolve towards inclusivity. Perhaps broadening our perception of inclusivity is one of our best tools towards egualitarianism, and against all sort of authoritarian tendencies. Something like that

Also the term terrorism is a tricky one, since more often than not, it is used by states to devalidate independence movements. The Kurdish one is no exception.

It’s been some time since I looked into it, so not too sure I remember things correctly. Anyone, please feel free to clarify nuances or correct me if I’m wrong.

I like this, and didn’t know about it.

While reading it, I had a funny moment during which I started wondering “wait a minute this sounds very much like entryism”, and thankfully it was addressed in the next paragraph. I also found a quote later on that highlights their differences even more for me:

Transparency, clarity, and honesty in the communication of our intentions are paramount.

Nothing sleazy there. On the contrary.

Just to clarify that I talk about randon people in contrast to people who consciously want to be part of a community with horizontal organization principles.

Your description doesn’t give me any elements of a community that is trying to organize itself with horizontal principles. It sounds more like random people put together for some reason, trying to solve individual problems, without any sense of good will.

So this doesn’t seem to me like a scarcity problem.