Building Free Life by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Science and Education for the Ethical-Political Society

The revolutionary democratization process that was put into motion by the Kurdish movement represents a development in which society increasingly takes responsibility for itself, for all decisions about the matters that concern it, and for the common ethical foundations. Politics is then no longer something distant and superordinated that is managed by others—for example, the government, the state, or the military. The questions and perspectives of the self-organizing, ethical-political society will yield a research and educational mandate that integrates collective experience and social knowledge into its work process.

In the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, for example, this means the immediate founding of women’s communes and education for women in every location newly liberated from the Islamic State (ISIS). Thus, jineolojî stands and emerges in the very midst of society: the research and further development of the science of women in all realms of application is conducted at the Faculty for Jineolojî, University of Rojava, as well as in several research centers. The arising knowledge is disseminated at academies, through other study paths, in schools, and in everyday political communication. It shapes the lifestyle in the women’s village of Jinwar and in many other places.

Jineolojî is seen as the “science of and for the women’s revolution.”11 With the revolutionary process that has been unfolding in Northern Syria since 2012, which has also been described as a women’s revolution, a new, self-organized, direct democratic society is being built. From the beginning, women’s organizations played an initiating, constructive, structuring, inspiring, and defensive role. The freedom of the women, the strengthening of their self-confidence, their rights and education, and the work of women in all areas including leadership tasks and armed defense are fundamental aspects of the new social order.

It is becoming clear that education enjoys a very prominent place in the Kurdish movement and is a firmly established building block for all sections of the movement and in the process of self-administration in Northern Syria. Abdullah Öcalan once said that revolutionary processes are at all times primarily educational processes. Part of this is continuous reflection on one’s own personality and an assessment of the influence of the dominant relations that are effective within us and that we reproduce. The patriarchal penetration of our modes of thought, our relations, our whole way of life runs deep. All genders must try to come to grips with this, educate themselves, reflect on themselves, and liberate themselves. Öcalan has repeatedly stressed this. The creation of jineolojî as a new science, as well as ideas about the contours of this project, were originally proposed by him. With jineolojî, an understanding of the effects and the possibility of overcoming patriarchy is being worked out. It analyzes the connection between patriarchy, on the one hand, and capitalism and the state, marriage and family, the economy, and natural conditions, as well as health and other areas, on the other hand.

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