The Kurds and the Rojavan Revolution w/ Dr. Thoreau Redcrow
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Brett sits down with Dr. Thoreau Redcrow, an expert on these issues, to discuss The Rojavan Revolution, the history of Kurdish repression in Turkey, and how the Kurds in Northern Syria (i.e. Western Kurdistan) are building socialism against all odds.
Dr. Redcrow is an American with a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis with a concentration in Global Conflict. He did his dissertation while embedded with the PKK in Kurdistan in 2014, coinciding with the emergence of ISIS.
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| 0:00.0 | We're educated, we've been given a certain set of tools, but then we're going to throw |
| 0:03.4 | on right back into the working class. |
| 0:04.8 | Well, good luck with that, because more and more of us are waking the fuck up. |
| 0:08.2 | So we have a tendency to what we have, we have earned, right? |
| 0:14.4 | And what we don't have, we are going to earn. |
| 0:18.4 | We unintentionally, I think, oftentimes kind of frame our lives as though we are the |
| 0:25.6 | predestined. |
| 0:27.2 | People want to be guilt-free. |
| 0:28.2 | Like, I didn't do it, like this is not my fault. |
| 0:30.4 | And I think that's part of the distancing from, like, if you don't want to admit that |
| 0:35.2 | this is pretty good. |
| 0:37.3 | When the main function of a protect and serve, supposedly, group is actually revenue generation, |
| 0:45.3 | they don't protect and serve. |
| 0:47.1 | Simply illogical to say that the things that affect all of us that can result in us losing |
| 0:52.0 | our house, that can result in us not having the drinking water, why should those be in |
| 0:56.2 | anybody else's hands? |
| 0:57.8 | They should be in the people's hands who are affected by those institutions. |
| 1:01.6 | People engage in to overcome oppression, to fight back, and to identify those systems |
| 1:07.7 | of structures that are oppressing them. |
| 1:11.1 | God, those communists are amazing. |
| 1:14.2 | Welcome to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 1:16.4 | I am your host and dedicated comrade, Brett O'Shea. |
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