Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Ocalan

Author:Abdullah Ocalan [Ocalan, Abdullah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9783942961189
Publisher: Transmedia Publishing
Published: 2015-01-07T02:00:00+00:00

E. DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM AND SELF-DEFENSE

Essentially, the nation-state is a militarily structured entity. Nation-states are, eventually, products of all kinds of internal and external warfare. None of the presently existing nation-states has come into existence all by itself. Invariably, they have a record of war. This process is not limited to their founding phases but, rather, it builds on the militarization of the entire society. The civil leadership of the state is only an accessory of the military apparatus. Liberal democracies even outdo this by painting their militaristic structures in democratic and liberal colors. However, this does not keep them from seeking authoritarian solutions at the peak of some crisis that is caused by the system itself. Fascist exercise of power is the nature of the nation-state. Fascism is the purest form of the nation-state.

This militarization can only be pushed back with the help of the right to self-defense. Societies without any mechanism of self-defense lose their identities, their capability of democratic decision-making, and their political nature. Therefore, the self-defense of a society is not limited to the military dimension alone. It also requires the preservation of its identity, its own political awareness, and a process of democratization. Only then can we talk about self-defense.

Against this backdrop, democratic confederalism can be called a system of self-defense for the society. Only with the help of confederate networks can there be a basis to oppose the global domination of the monopolies and the nation-state militarism. We must build up an equally strong network of social confederacies against the network of the monopolies.

This means, in particular, that the social paradigm of confederalism does not involve a military monopoly for the armed forces, which do only have the task of ensuring the internal and external security. They are under direct control of the democratic institutions. The society itself must be able to determine their duties. One of their tasks will be the defense of the free will of the society from internal and external interventions. The composition of the military leadership needs to be determined on equal terms by the political institutions and the confederate groups.

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