Book: Beyond State, Power, and Violence by Abdullah Öcalan

Full Structure of The Book

FOREWORD – by Andrej Grubačić

PREFACE – In Defense of a People

ONE – Social Reality and the Individual
Introduction
Natural Society

TWO – Hierarchical Statist Society: The Birth of Slave Society
On Method
The Advent of Hierarchy
Patriarchy
Gerontocracy

THREE – The Statist Society: The Formation of Slave Society

FOUR – Feudal Statist Society
The Mature Slave Society
The Capitalist State and Capitalist Society: The Crisis of Civilization

FIVE – The Democratic and Ecological Society
The Historical Essence of Communal and Democratic
Values
Prophets and Barbarians
Monasteries, Witches, and Alchemists
From the Renaissance to Marxism

SIX – A Blueprint for a Democratic and Ecological Society
Democracy as a System for a Way Out of Crisis
Women’s Liberation
The Return to Social Ecology

SEVEN – Chaos in the Middle East Civilization and Ways Out
Introduction
Understanding the Middle East Correctly: What Is the Problem and How Did It Develop?
The Mentality of the Middle East
The State in the Middle East
The Family in the Middle East
Further Particularities of Society in the Middle East
Ethnicity and Nation
Homeland
Class
Property
Economy
Dynasty
Tariqat
Civil Society
Violence and Dictatorship in the Civilization in the Middle East

EIGHT – The Current Situation in the Middle East and Probable Developments
The Middle East Today
State Power
Theocracy as the Foundation of Every State
The Situation of Women
The Economy
Scenarios
The Future of the Region
Democratic Politics
The Freedom of Women
Economy
Ecology

NINE – The Kurdish Phenomenon and the Kurdish Question in the Chaos of the Middle East
Introduction
Some Distinctive Lines in the Kurdish Society
A Short Sketch of the History and Concepts of “Kurds” and “Kurdistan”
The Struggle Over Kurdistan, War, and Terror
The Policy of Forced Assimilation Targeting the
Culture of Kurdistan
Ethnicity, Class, and Nation in Kurdistan
Official Ideology and Power in Kurdistan
Self-Awareness and Resistance in Kurdistan

TEN – The PKK Movement: Critique, Self-Critique, and Its Reconstruction
Section A—Historical Sketch of the PKK
First Phase: Emergence
Second Phase
Some Thoughts on the PKK
Section B—Critique and Self-Critique in the Name of the PKK
The Concept of the Party
Power and Violence
Democracy
Self-critique of the PKK
National Liberation
Section C—The Questions in the Restructuring of the PKK
Kurdish-Turkish Relations
First Contacts
The Strategic Alliance
Capitalism in Turkey
The Era of the Republic
1920–1940
1940–1970
1970 to Today
Section D—Reform and Social Transformation in Turkey
Nationalists
The Liberal Bourgeoisie
Democrats

ELEVEN – Contribution to the Debate about the Refoundation of the PKK
Introduction
Tasks in Reconstructing the PKK and the Time of Koma
Gel
Theory
Practice
Program
Political Objectives
Social Objectives
Women
Ecology and Economics
Internationalist Aspect
Individual Rights
Organizing
Cadres
The People’s Congress
The People’s Defense Forces
Options for Democratic Action and a Democratic
Solution
The Second Path

TWELVE – The Role of the ECtHR and the EU in the Lawsuit against Abdullah Öcalan Critique of the ECtHR

THIRTEEN – An Identity That Must Be Accurately Defined

AFTERWORD

APPENDIX – Letter

ANNEX A – Modern History of Turkey

ANNEX B – Chronology of the Recent History of Kurdistan

ANNEX C – Chronology of the PKK