Message of Rêber Apo for 25th November
other Languages: ESP // GER // IDN
“Society is not a single-layered class structure; it is a field of struggle based on gender, is historical, and is composed of many layers. The first and greatest problem of humanity is the counter-revolution, which began with the enslavement of woman and attacked the socialisation built around her. Domestic violence, the murder of women, and the oppression of patriarchy are all signs and a continuation of this historical attack. The caste structure that attacked the communality and socialisation around women later transformed in Mesopotamia into the council of gods, the Sumerian priests, and from there into pharaohs and kings, thus making patriarchal oppression over society permanent.
In this era, the woman is capitalism’s most valuable raw material. Her body is sold, her personality is offered to the market. The woman whose spirit has also been occupied by man, lives with the very dagger of slavery that the patriarchal system has stabbed in her back. The patriarchal social hierarchy, created by the millennia-long civilisational war, brings with it violence and war. Patriarchal civilisation with the state has taken the voice, production, the female body, and subsequently, society from women. Until this truth is recognised, no step can be taken towards freedom.
The problematic situation that the patriarchal system has imposed upon women must be understood and resolved. When one considers the killing of women, domestic violence, violence against women, and discrimination-based colonialism, the extent of their enslavement is far greater than one might expect. Women have been completely subjugated. Her reality has been turned upside down. The trinkets that women wear for adornment and status, the piercings they wear on their noses, are all signs of slavery that have persisted throughout history. Within capitalist modernity, the enslavement of women has become even deeper; the system has transformed women into an instrument of the market and adornment. To be liberated from this systematic enslavement, to achieve freedom, requires profound depth and organisation.
No social freedom movement can be a genuine revolution unless it makes women’s freedom its cornerstone. I see the relationships between women and men as very problematic. We made women’s liberation our principle and evaluated relationships accordingly. The largest part of our work is the work concerning women. It is important to understand the relationship and conflict between women and men. We have analysed and assessed male domination, which hinders women’s freedom and enslaves women in every way. We have created a sociology of freedom. It is clear that being a woman is difficult, and liberation is not easy, but women must do this with courage. To remove the dagger of male domination that has been stabbed into the back of humanity and to build a free and democratic life, they must take the lead.”
Abdullah Ocalan
Message of Rêber Apo for 25th November
other Languages: ESP // GER // IDN
“Society is not a single-layered class structure; it is a field of struggle based on gender, is historical, and is composed of many layers. The first and greatest problem of humanity is the counter-revolution, which began with the enslavement of woman and attacked the socialisation built around her. Domestic violence, the murder of women, and the oppression of patriarchy are all signs and a continuation of this historical attack. The caste structure that attacked the communality and socialisation around women later transformed in Mesopotamia into the council of gods, the Sumerian priests, and from there into pharaohs and kings, thus making patriarchal oppression over society permanent.
In this era, the woman is capitalism’s most valuable raw material. Her body is sold, her personality is offered to the market. The woman whose spirit has also been occupied by man, lives with the very dagger of slavery that the patriarchal system has stabbed in her back. The patriarchal social hierarchy, created by the millennia-long civilisational war, brings with it violence and war. Patriarchal civilisation with the state has taken the voice, production, the female body, and subsequently, society from women. Until this truth is recognised, no step can be taken towards freedom.
The problematic situation that the patriarchal system has imposed upon women must be understood and resolved. When one considers the killing of women, domestic violence, violence against women, and discrimination-based colonialism, the extent of their enslavement is far greater than one might expect. Women have been completely subjugated. Her reality has been turned upside down. The trinkets that women wear for adornment and status, the piercings they wear on their noses, are all signs of slavery that have persisted throughout history. Within capitalist modernity, the enslavement of women has become even deeper; the system has transformed women into an instrument of the market and adornment. To be liberated from this systematic enslavement, to achieve freedom, requires profound depth and organisation.
No social freedom movement can be a genuine revolution unless it makes women’s freedom its cornerstone. I see the relationships between women and men as very problematic. We made women’s liberation our principle and evaluated relationships accordingly. The largest part of our work is the work concerning women. It is important to understand the relationship and conflict between women and men. We have analysed and assessed male domination, which hinders women’s freedom and enslaves women in every way. We have created a sociology of freedom. It is clear that being a woman is difficult, and liberation is not easy, but women must do this with courage. To remove the dagger of male domination that has been stabbed into the back of humanity and to build a free and democratic life, they must take the lead.”
Abdullah Ocalan