Yeah creating a just society is an ongoing process... it's not even really a utopia, the people really have to put in work to make it work. There will be flaws and kinks that will arise over time which would need to be worked out but they will be addressed and resolved by the communities instead of a ruling class. Everyone has to put in the effort to reach the ideal egalitarian society that's not based on exploitation and hierarchy.
Yeah but that could only happen through the will of the people. In order to create a positive and egalitarian society, (especially if it's decentralized) people's mindsets really do need to change. They can't be apathetic towards the issues in the world and they actually have to care about more than just themselves. It's a revolution of the mind first, then our actions can reflect what we believe.
That's true independence is 100% important (which is why this topic is more complex)... I think democratic socialism is more easily feasible at least in this current time... but it's less preferable. If you look at a place like Rojava, they are creating a decentralized community government based on direct democracy even though it's a risk and they could be more easily targeted. It's certainly not perfect but the fact that they are trying is good at least. A more positive and beneficial society is feasible but it does take time and effort, plus people have to actually want change.
For Rojava to thrive and more places like it to arise, many people have to change their world view. You are right that the involvement of multiple countries is required... because if people are challenging the status quo when others aren't, it's easier to take them out. But if we want freedom for the whole world, then most people have to be on the same page. That's why I think there must be a paradigm shift in people's mindset. Creating a society based on community and mutual aid requires people to be caring of others.
To be honest, I do not remotely understand Rojava.
I like to focus where I know. There is this quote from Mao.... "Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?
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I know today it that people like Mao are very controversial.
However.... if Mao was truly guilty of such vicious crimes........ if he really was a horrible criminal who committed crimes against Chinese people..... then why is it the US that remembers him badly while in China he is on their currency? My neighbor has a bill of Chinese currency and I have seen it and I have seen how they have Mao on their money.....
When it comes to Cuba, Mexico, Latin America, etc...... I feel like Mao's guerrilla as far as the water.... of course I am just a regular person.... but if you think from a certain type of perspective.... these alternative ways of thinking... they can be implemented and they can succeed.... but they have to embrace the particular..... the alternative thinker is a fish and he needs water which will support him..... and so since I am obsessed with that region and I am very interested in that region, to me that region and is are like water..... with Rojava, I am completely out of my water.....
I know nothing about Rojava.... for me I like Latin America and I feel like I have an advantage when it comes to Spanish-speaking Latin America (not so much the Portugese-Speaking Brazil.......)... because with all the anti-Castro fanatics.... they rely on second-hand sources which are propaganda..... for me, I can go and YouTube and listen to Fidel and the material relating to him without any translation or with any secondary sources.... I can study the man for myself.... and then plus the material for example the writings of Che Guevara.... Che wrote an essay saying that Cuba was serving as a vanguard.... he had a speech to the youth where he said discussed the concept of vanguardia..... the vanguardia.... being vanguard.
For you.... Latin America can be interested to study and its anti-imperialist movements can serve as models but my advice would be to find.... if you haven't already.... a region or the region that you wish to particularly study.... and focus on that region.... and focus on other regions simultaneously.... the problem with eurocentrism is it's boring. No one really wants eurocentrism. Not even eurocentrists. They push eurocentrism while they eat Mexican food and while their kids try to imitate rappers. Rachel Dolezal.... she might be very funny but even she was a woman wishing to escape eurocentrism. Her case might be funny and bizarre but I think that is the psychological reason behind it. Eurocentrism cannot be sustained because it is incestuous. Incestuoism causes deformity........ a healthy culture is not the bizarre Aryanism of a Nazi Germany.... look at what happens with fascism.... with Nazi Germany.... they had Einstein.... they had Albert Einstein..... Germany did... and then with the Nazis they done lost Einstein. In El Salvador, they killed their own intellectuals. In Chile, they killed Pablo Neruda. In.... where was the other place... Italy. In Italy, Mussolini killed Gramsci.
If you love Italy, El Salvador, Chile.... those people should be the pride and joy of those places.... or even Athens with Socrates... Socrates brought something incredible to Athens...... and he was thanked with execution.... in any case there are two approaches as I see it.... and one is a unipolar approach which I think is like Nazi Aryanism.... incestuousness....... and then there is the mixing..... there is the multipolar approach.... if someone is concerned with a family bloodline for example.... in the past many family bloodlines of powerful people... they practiced incest... they were obsessed with a "purity" that was not of purity in the good sense..... but what is healthy is the fusion..... with Athens, if I understand correctly there were people from all over the world coming to Athens......
Anyways, so if you Rojova and any region its associated with.... any type of regional stuff interests you.... I really recommend interest in regionally-based stuff.... the bland superficial universalism that is aimed at homogenizing the world.... I consider as a disease....
so let's see.... having gotten the thinking of regionalism out of the way.....
hmm.... I don't think Cuba is undemocratic. I think the majority of the people support their government. Were that not the case, I don't think their government would have lasted so long. Of course there is a faction of anti-Castro Cubans. There always are the reactionaries- the counter-revolution.
I admire the Cuban Revolution and I think Fidel was a hero and that now that he is no longer here that has become a legend. He will go down in history among other leaders of Latin American independence, such as Simón Bolívar and José Martí, Hugo Chávez, José Vasconcelos. A second wave of Latin American independence. He is extremely important in the history of Latin America. He is extremely important in the history of socialism and the history of anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism.
the stuff about democracy...... I regard the Cubans as heroes.... when we are looking at the will of the Cuban people... we have consider the Cuban people as a totality... we cannot consider only the "gusanos" of Miami
not all the Cuban immigrants are gusanos and there are Cuban immigants who I really respect.... I respect Celia Cruz for example.... but there are Cuban immigrants who are right-wing fanatics... even who are terrorists!!!.... there is a dark history of the Cuban immigrant right-wing engaging in terrorism... against Cubans!
this is a video of Castro denouncing the gusanos..... it is very brief.... it is not in English but I show it so people can see the tone of voice he used... listen to his voice.... his voice and the tone he uses shows how he felt.... he denounced the gusanos as traitors.... Cuba has a revolution for its independence and..... the revolution is wonderful but as great and as important as it is in the historical process towards progress..... the revolution is not necessarily democratic..... for example, if you are George Washington.... if I was George Washington and I had to go against the British.... if I had to shut down dissent from the supporters of British imperialism.... then I would shut them down in a heartbeat... if I had to do that to protect the independence of the US..... the US is very different than Cuba.... US, Cuba... Rojava..... these are very different places..... if people want socialism in the US, the US doesn't have to take the route Cuba went..... I think socialism could be brought about peacefully and democratically.... different things work differently in different locations.... that's why I think it is important that the thinking is tied to a concrete region.... through this way it will achieve universality through the particular.... whereas if it refuses to engage with the particular then its refusal becomes universal......
so what I would say.... I would say what is transcendental in your post is your embracing of historicity... of the concrete. You talk about Rojava. Any movement based in the realities of Cuba has to be based in the soil of Cuba and Latin America. Cuba is not Rojava and Rojava is not Cuba. They are not the same and they should not be the shame. If people in Rojava wanted to follow the lessons of Che, Fidel and the Cuban Revolution.... then the way to do so would be to study the lessons of Rojava!
Cuba's government I believe is supported by the will of the people. Were it not then I don't think it would be standing. So the idea that Rojava's government and Cuba's government.... that Rojava is supported by the people... and Cuba is not.... I do not think is correct.
A lot of the relevant material is not in Engish.
However Daniel Ortega was right.
If you listen to this he asks this crowd in Cuba "where is Fidel?"
and the crowd is screaming "Yo soy Fidel!" "Yo soy Fidel!" (I am Fidel)
Ortega looks into the people and says that Fidel is in the people. And so Fidel is immortal. Because he is alive in millions of people. This is where the Cuban Revolution draws its strength, just as where the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela draws its strength, the Mexican Revolution, the revolution in Vietnam, the Russian revolution.... any successful revolution.....
so any attack on the Cuban Revolution is an attack on a vanguard... there is nothing useful in giving concessions to the reactionaries...... but there is something transcendental in making Rojava a part of the discussion.... of finding a new center in Rojava
