2015-08-10 16:10 GMT+02:00 Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>:
2) he calls rojava and chiapas non-state institutions, but this is for me problematic, both of them have armies that protect the carocoles (chiapas) and comunes (rojava); since the state has also been defined as a body of armed men existing separately from society, I believe myself these are new state forms, i.e. they exist separately from any contract between sovereign individuals or communities, and cover a whole territory; in other words, to the degree they permit the autonomous existence of the councils, they are actually the best possible example of a partner state; and if you add that at least rojava is centered our cooperative enterprise, they are very close to the model proposal by Vasilis and myself.
It has to be noted that the foundation of Rojava comunes is based on Abdullah Ocalan recent writings, which are inspired by Murray Bookchin ones. http://roarmag.org/2014/08/pkk-kurdish-struggle-autonomy/