(en) Chile, Periodico-solidaridad Chile, Solidaridad #26 - The revolution is female by Abdullah Öcalan (ca)

(en) Chile, Periodico-solidaridad Chile, Solidaridad #26 -
The revolution is female by Abdullah Öcalan (ca) [machine
translation]

Reflect on the question of the rights of women and write about it means putting into 
question the whole story and the whole society. Because the systematic exploitation of 
women has reached unparalleled dimensions. ---- Viewed from this perspective, the history 
of civilization can be defined as a history of losses for women. In the course of this 
story has been imposed patriarchal man's personality. With great losses for society; the 
result was a sexist society. ---- Sexism is an instrument of power and a gun while used in 
the course of history permanently in all systems of civilization. In fact, no other social 
group has never been exploited physically and psychologically as women. The variety of the 
exploitation of women is evident. The woman produces offspring. Serves as free labor. We 
play those jobs that nobody wants to do. It is an obedient slave. It is a permanent object 
of sexual avidity. It is used for advertising purposes. She is the queen of all goods. 
Build the foundation on which man produces and reproduces his power as an instrument of 
continuing violence. That's why the five thousand year history of civilization can also be 
described as "rape culture".

In the era of capitalism, sexism was used as an ideological instrument especially 
perfidious manner. Capitalism, which has inherited the sexist society, not content to use 
women as free labor in the home. The transformed into sexual object, the reduced to 
merchandise for it for sale on the market. While man sells only its workforce, women are 
completely reduced to merchandise, whether in the physical or psychological. The system 
gives a strategic role to dominate women in relation to the extension of the farm and 
power. Further expanding the traditional repression of women, every man becomes a partner 
of power. Society is therefore hit by the syndrome of the total expansion of power. The 
status of women gives a sense of the concept of unlimited power to the patriarchal 
society. Consider the biologically imperfect woman sex is pure ideology and a legacy of 
patriarchal mentality. This doctrine is an essential part of all scientific, ethical and 
political submitting your status as a natural attempts. The sad thing is that the woman 
herself also is accustomed to accept this paradigm as truth. The nature and sacredness of 
this condition supposed inferiority affects their thinking and behavior. Thus, we must 
always remember that no people, no class and no nation has been systematically enslaved 
and women. Women accustomed to slavery have been established hierarchies and opened the 
way for the enslavement of other parts of society. The enslavement of man has come only 
after slavery of women. The difference of slavery on grounds of sex with regard to slavery 
of a kind and of a nation lies in the fact that it is guaranteed not only by a massive and 
subtle repression, also lies with a strong emotional charge. Originally, the spread of 
slavery of women throughout society paved the way for all other types of hierarchies and 
state structures. That was devastating not only for women but also for the whole society, 
except for a small group of hierarchical and statist forces.

Therefore, any path leads to a profound critique of patriarchal ideology and institutions 
that are founded on it. One of the most important pillars of this system is the 
institution of the family. Family conceived as a small state of man. The importance of the 
family in the course of the history of civilization is the force that gives the rulers and 
the state establishment. A family oriented male dominance, and from here its core function 
of statist society guarantee that women fulfill without limitation unpaid work. At the 
same time raising children, meets state requirements sufficient population and is set as a 
model for the spread of slavery throughout society.

If the family as a micro-state model, is not understood is not possible to correctly 
analyze the medioriental civilization. The Middle Eastern man who has suffered losses on 
all fronts, rebels against women. The more humiliated in public, more download their 
aggressive impulses that result against women. The man in the social sphere allows all 
values are trampled, with so-called "honor killings" seeks to appease his wrath 
downloading on women. With regard to Middle Eastern societies I must add that the 
traditional influences of patriarchal and statist society have not found a synthesis with 
the influences of modern forms of Western civilization, but rather make a comparable set a 
Gordian knot.

Analyze the concepts of power and domination referring to man is very difficult. Not so 
much the woman who rejects the change, but rather the man. Leaving the role of dominant 
male man felt like a sovereign who has lost his state. We must therefore show that this 
same domain empty form that takes away freedom and makes him a reactionary. Analysis of 
this type are much more than mere theoretical observations as they are vital for the 
Kurdish liberation struggle. We believe freedom of the Kurdish people inseparable from the 
liberation of women, so we have organized accordingly. If today our aspiration to freedom 
is not destroyed, despite attacks by the imperialist powers and local reactionary forces, 
we owe an incalculable Movement for the Liberation of Women and awareness that has been 
created to therefrom. For us, free woman can not be a free Kurdistan.

This philosophical and social vision is not at all a tactical maneuver to keep women 
policy linked to the fight. Our goal is to build a democratic society occurs through a 
change in man. I think, analyzing the praxis of the struggle developed so far for us, we 
have come to understand the flawed man, despotic, oppressive and exploitative of 
patriarchal society. This was the most appropriate response in the pursuit of freedom for 
women who have managed to find: understanding the patriarchal man, analyze and "kill him". 
I would like to take another step forward. I will try to outline the personality of a new 
man, a lover of peace. Analyze and "kill" the classic man to pave the way towards love and 
peace. In this sense, I consider myself a worker in the struggle for liberation of women.

The contrast between the sexes is the most important of the XXI century opposed. Without 
the fight against patriarchal ideology and morality, against their influence on society 
and against the patriarchal individuals, we can not reach a free life and build a truly 
democratic society and realize therefore socialism. People do not crave only democracy but 
also a democratic society without sexism. Without equality between the sexes, every 
request for freedom and equality is meaningless and illusory. Just as people have the 
right to self-determination, women also should determine for themselves their own destiny. 
It's a question that we can not ignore or delay. In contrast, the formation of a new 
civilization freedom of women is fundamental to the realization of equality. Contrary to 
the experiences of real socialism or national liberation struggles, consider the release 
of the most important woman that the release of class or nation.

From the experience of our struggle, I know that from the moment in which the liberation 
movement of women entering the field of politics must face extremely fierce opposition. 
However, if you do not win in politics, you can not get any lasting result. Win in the 
political arena does not mean that women take power. Unlike. It means fighting statist and 
hierarchical structures, means creating structures that are not facing a state, but 
leading to a democratic and ecological society, freedom of both sexes. Thus you will gain 
not only women but also the whole of humanity.

http://www.periodico-solidaridad.cl/2014/12/29/la-revolucion-es-femenina/