Liberals in the Media who act like Rojava doesn't exist

youtube.com/watch?v=BBhlut3MJxE

Does anyone else get really frustrated by this? Even the more left wing liberals like Jimmy and Kyle don't seem to realize there's a revolution going on over there.

I really ought to reread Punisher MAX

Rojava is usually just called "the kurds" or "kurdistan" by the media. Its so vague. Rojava is also often made out to be west loving freedom™ fighters. And the YPJ are just reduced to being "pretty cute gun women, grrl power! :^)".
Mainstream media will never acknowledge the actual revolution going on.

Holla Forums is the only place I've heard about Rojava.

In general, liberals don't like to admit the actualized existence of any form of anarchism. I know that when I learned European history, they tried to skip over the Spanish Civil War as fast as possible.

You can't dismiss anarchists off hand if you know anarchism is a real historical thing.

they can't let the word get out about communalism.

communalism is the future and porky is afraid.

It's kind sad that through a decade of school, the only mention of anarchism I ever got was drug doing no good smashie autonomous

It would kind of interfere with the complex "Assad bad man" message they want to force.

Theres a few articles on the BBC website about it but it's often refereed to as Kurdistan in the title with it specifying further in the article. None of them seem negative though which is a plus

I didn't know about it until I came here though.

Even when they do lenghty reports about the YPG/J or SDF they never mention the politics. Or they call them "Marxists". Its incredible how blatant capitalist mindsets are in journalism. They dont get the connection that all the nice things they like about the SDF stem directly from their ideological convictions. They rather pretend that people just magically became liberals while fighting islamists in the desert.

What's the likelihood of it spreading past Syria though

They are selfish.

You are shocked by this?

I saw a magazine in a book store about the 'Rojava revolution'. It even covered Bookchin's theory a bit and had a picture of him in it.

Its in all of Kurdistan(including the Yeezidis) allready and there is a sizable faction of christian DemConFed followers that could form a bridge to the other christian minorities. Its a hard process that will chang what the PKK is, but its possible.

Also I really doubt that the now close cooperation of the PKK with other militant communist groups in Turkey will happen without some ideological cross fertilizarion.

A part of me lowkey just can't wait to be 5 years into the future and back here on Holla Forums to look back at the awesome feats of the Rojava Revolution(tm) and read all the highly nuanced explanatory posts from my comrades explaining why things ended up the way they did.

The complexity of the situation in Syria doesn't lend itself to being easily understood through the lense of anti-imperialism that is so common on the left. This is, I think the reason for the left's deafening silence with regards to Rojava.

You can call it a revolution and support it despite knowing that it will most likely fail or devolve into a slight more democratic social democracy.

Let's not be too pessimistic. But rather observe them over the coming times and see if they end up being yet another band of SocDems

literally the tankie argument on anything not ussr/china

It's not a revolution, it's a struggle for liberation that will most likely fail in achieving socialism or even communalism, but might open up an avenue for future organization.

leftcoms get out

Those particular "smashies" from your picture where pretty good. Managed to gather 6000 people to sperg-out when the cops threw them out of their squat. Now copenhagen has a population of 1.2 million, so that's 0.5 percent of the population going militant left-wing over a youth recreational center. It's hardly a revolution, but it is something. I bet it inspired several people to read a book.