neil 🍄Good piece on the lineage back to #Bookchin of the ideas and structures of the Kurdish resistance.
"Rather than advocating the abolition of the state through an uprising of the proletariat, he suggested that by developing alternative institutions in the form of popular assemblies and neighborhood committees - and notably by taking part in municipal elections - the power of the state could be 'hollowed out' from below, eventually making it superfluous."
https://roarmag.org/essays/bookchin-kurdish-struggle-ocalan-rojava/
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