After 25 years in prison, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan decides to bring
down the curtain and disband his party. The party was founded in 1984 onthe basis of Marxist-Leninist doctrine, but after its leader read Murray
Bookchin in prison, it declared itself a "democratic confederalist"
party, offering a very peculiar reinterpretation of Bookchin's ideas as
a mixture of Leninism and social democracy with feminist and ecological
discourse, all against the backdrop of a personality cult of the leader.
---- The PKK actually participated in the parliamentary elections in
Turkey a few years ago and won a few seats, but because it did not lay
down its arms, the Erdogan government classified it as a "terrorist
organization" and it became illegal again.
At the same time, several political developments have emerged in recent
years that could impact the legal status of Öcalan (who is serving a
life sentence). In October 2024, Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the
Nationalist Movement Party and a key ally of President Erdogan,
suggested that Öcalan's sentence could be reviewed if the PKK laid down
its arms. Later, in February 2025, Öcalan called on the PKK to disband
itself and renounce armed struggle, prompting the group to declare a
ceasefire and announce its future dissolution, which it finally did a
few days ago. According to its recent 12th Congress, the PKK "destroyed
the policy of denial and annihilation imposed" on Turkey's Kurdish
population and "brought the Kurdish issue to a point where it can be
resolved through democratic politics, thus fulfilling its historical
mission." Surely the only thing that can solve this is the entry of the
former PKK leaders into the Turkish parliament, as they always planned,
in new political parties, free from the historical burden of the PKK.
Despite his more or less outspoken statements, Öcalan has finally
admitted defeat and is positioning himself as the future social
democratic leader after his apparently agreed release. We will soon see
him at the head of a new party. Who knows whether he will again stick to
his special interpretation of Bookchin's ideas, hoping that they will
bear fruit, or perhaps take a more traditional position, this time
closer to European social democracy.
Despite the disastrous and bitter historical experience of mixing
anarchism with movements, trade unions and political parties that put
"national liberation" above social revolution, today, in the 21st
century, many anarchists join such movements, which inevitably end up
being betrayed in some parliament, begging for a place in power.
Let us not be distracted any further. A true anarchist movement is one
that openly advocates social revolution above all else, including the
"liberation" of any "people" or "nation", simply because any "national
liberation" (even if it is dressed up in feminist or ecological garb) is
nothing more than a scam to replace one government with another, one
oppressor and exploiter with another, while deceiving us with promises
of "becoming one of us". Only a social revolution that destroys
government and establishes an anarchist communism from the bottom up,
organized in free communities, can achieve the liberation of the
peoples. And no political party will ever achieve this, even if it calls
itself "democratic confederalist".
Pedro Paumo
Translated from Spanish.
Original:
https://bibliotecadigitalbdela.blogspot.com/2025/05/se-cae-la-farsa-del-confederalismo.html
https://aitrus.info/node/6310
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