Abdullah Öcalan’s Defenses Writtings

Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization – Volume II

Introduction Section 1: The Rise of Capitalism    1.1 Rationalism    1.2 The Capitalist Mentality   1.3 Economism    1.4 Capitalism’s Relationship With Political Power and Law    1.5 The Location of Capitalism    1.6 Historical Societal Civilizations and Capitalism Section 2: The Mortal Enemy of Economy    2.1 Capitalism is not Economy but Power […]

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2.4 The Situation in Europe at the Onset of Capitalism

Neither Christianity nor Islam has found a solution to the final crisis that deepened with the fall of the Roman Empire at its slave-owning stage. The system that they developed, the so- called “feudal order” or “Medieval Civilization”, is no different to the solutions preached by the Sumerian and Egyptian priests. Thus, all that these

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2.3 Capitalism in Relation to Society, Civilization, and History

How can we come to an adequate understanding and interpretation of the capitalist system (which is clearly not economy, but is indeed anti-economy)? Where exactly should we situate it in terms of location and time within the social and civilizational reality? We can only reach a meaningful conclusion with regard to capitalism by probing into

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2.2 Evidence that Capitalism is Anti-Economy

The evidence that capitalism is not only not an economy, but that it is anti-economy is striking. 1. Economic crises The “priest class” of positivist-scientists intent on proving that capitalism is an economic system have the wrong perception of the capitalist problem, a perception which they transmit to others. There is only one explanation for

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3.5 Powers in Capitalist Modernity

Concepts such as civilization, power, and state are the most difficult categories of social relations to resolve both in terms of their interrelatedness and in their own right. Civilization is a subject where discussion in relation to its description continues through the present. Any attempt to describe where power began and where it might end,

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