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Reply to comment by dele_ted in Why do so many leftists support rojava? by ETERNAL_PRISONER

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dele_ted wrote

Well, they're not any type of nation that we're used to in the western world.

I never said they were anarchist; i said they're deploying many of the same concepts that anarchists (and other libertarian leftists) would also like to see implemented and experimented with. If you want to give Rojava as a whole a label, it would be democratic confederalism as described by Öcalan.

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dele_ted wrote

That's just being pedantic and putting words in my mouth, i never said such a thing. I get that you don't like me, that's okay, but please save your bitterness for later. We really don't need that right now.

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dele_ted wrote

What i meant and should have said was "Rojava doesn't have much to do with right-wing nationalism", I'm just so used to nationalism being synonymous with right nationalism. You're right that Rojava does hold left-wing nationalist values (although not very pronounced).

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that's not say rojava is a nation-state

This is something to stress, honestly; Rojava is decentralized and blind to ethnicity, with all the local languages being official, most regions bi or trilingual, and with them operating in the local language with respects to local culture.

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A nation state (or nation-state) in the most specific sense is a country where a distinct cultural or ethnic group (a "nation" or "people") inhabits a territory and have formed a state (often a sovereign state) that they predominantly govern.

It wouldn't be this, given its decentralized nature; and its even Arab majority these days due to the eastern territories.

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