Interesting to note that the teens and young adults who overthrew the government elected their new prime minister on Discord, and the military acknowledged the election and put the winner in place.
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2025
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My proudest moment in a while was sharing a pirated copy with some college kids that were in the right path but were definitely in need of a little examination on what kinds of movements would be effective. I even tried to even it out a bit by saying that decentralized authority and defence of a revolution is possible and forms of it exist with Rojava and the Zapatistas, but the idea of a completely non-hierarchical, nonviolent populist movement is bait.
If i had a book to recommend to pretty much anyone calling themselves a leftist even if they arent is that one. Not cause its like the best theory stuff or whatever, but so people who haven't read theory may think twice before fucking it up for the rest of us. It's actually a really easy thing to explain to aplotical normies. Ive expressed this concern at work and have basically phrased it as "they overthrew the government before figuring out how to replace it and generally the last people you want in charge are the most prepared to fill that void." Don't rob a bank without a plan, dont use your tongue to stop a fan. It's common fucking sense really.
Dude I remember back in the cth days that Rojava was like fucking ancom candy. Seemed like every other post had something to do with Rojava.
It's candy cause it's a left-aesthetic that isn't demonized by their media apparatuses (because it's pro-American). The radlibs wanna be left, but they have been legitimately brainwashed by American media and cannot break from it
Oh I get it, I used to stan hard for Rojava back then, too, because it's what we did; I was just pointing out the difference in tone between the sub and lemmy.
Many people came to understand the truth about Syria
And that's exactly the story for me. I came to realize that the "regime" narrative we were being fed in the news was a CIA talking point.
Yeah there were definitely people on the sub back in the day stating the truth, but they were mocked and drowned out by the sea of Bernard Brethren
The ancom voice was by far the loudest voice on the sub. r/moretankiechapo and r/genzedong were where I really started to learn about theory, and eventually started actually reading someone other than Murry Bookchin or Noam Chomsky.
Rojava was a US-backed front for American occupation and oil theft, who are now allied with the ISIS-Al Qaeda Zionist government. Not a great example.
Also, both Rojava and this are incredibly violent. Rojava ethnically cleansed many arabs, and these protests were burning down residential buildings and killing the wife of the PM as well as clashing with security forces. Funny how pro-west movements never get called "violent" even when they are using snipers