To Prove There Was a Revolution in Rojava
Lies, Defamation…
Insults Against Revolutions and Revolutionary Leaders
On November 19, the site called ANF News published an article titled “Rojava is the last stop of socialism, the first step of democratic socialism.”
The article, which aims to lend credibility to the fantasy that a revolution took place in Rojava, attempts to do this by attacking socialism, socialist values, world revolutions, and revolutionary leaders. Written entirely in a language of attacks and defamation borrowed from imperialists, without any scientific or historical basis, the article is essentially an insult to socialism and revolutionary leaders. Since the text is a stream of insults from beginning to end, there is no need for detailed quotations. A couple of excerpts are enough to understand the real purpose behind the article.
Let us begin by repeating the definition of revolution:
Lenin answers the question “What is a revolution?” as follows:
“It is the forcible destruction, at a given moment, of the outdated political superstructure that no longer corresponds to the new relations of production and has led to their collapse.”
Of course, many definitions of revolution can be made, and all these definitions complement each other and never contradict one another. The claim of a revolution in Rojava matches none of these definitions.
There are neither new relations of production nor any change in old relations of production. Nor is there a superstructure forcibly destroyed. Nothing happened other than the Assad administration—under imperialist siege—choosing not to open another front and therefore withdrawing from the region by reaching an agreement with Kurdish organizations. They did not touch the existing structure, and for quite a long time continued bureaucratic relations with the central government. Salaries were even paid by the Assad administration.
Let us continue with the definition of revolution:
“Revolution is not a simple change of government. A social revolution is one that transforms the society in which it takes place—from its economy to its political and social structure—and rebuilds it anew, or is in the process of rebuilding it. It is the creation of a new society, a new human being.”
(The Path of the Anatolian Revolution, Ali Osman Köse, p. 14)
Revolution has two stages. The first is the political revolution, which is the destruction and seizure of all institutions of power. The second stage, the social revolution, is the weaving, thread by thread, of the new system—the system of the proletariat, the class that creates life, namely the more advanced mode of production called socialism—through the state apparatus that has been seized.
No revolution in the world has ever needed to prove that it is a revolution. They made the revolution and went on with their work to build socialism. After the Soviet Revolution, no one claimed that what happened there was not a revolution. The same is true in Cuba, in China, and in other countries where revolutions succeeded. They did not feel the need to explain that what they had done was indeed a revolution. They carried out their political revolutions and mobilized all working masses to successfully complete the process of social revolution.
The Kurdish nationalist movement—proud of collaborating with the U.S.—is trying to convince others that what happened in Rojava is a revolution. According to them, what happened in Rojava is a revolution:
By God, it is a revolution, absolutely a revolution. Anyone who says otherwise is a fascist, a racist… deserving of every kind of slander (!).
Unable to convince anyone except for a few tailist groups that what happened in Rojava is a revolution, the collaborationist Kurdish movement resorts to attacking socialism and socialist values. And not only this—they present Rojava as a model of socialism. Their effort to label a few kindergartens, a few women’s shelters, a library, etc. As socialism—without making a single intervention in the economic or social structure, let alone dismantling it—seems to fail, and thus articles are occasionally written to persuade others that Rojava is indeed a revolution and a good system.
The gains of socialism—achieved in its brief existence compared to the hundred-thousand-year history of humanity and the ten-thousand-year history of exploitation—are far too many to fit into books, not only for their own peoples but for the peoples of the world. There is a vast accumulation of knowledge on this, as well as many documents.
However, in Rojava under the boots of imperialist soldiers there is not a single line gained for the peoples of the world.
In the article published on November 19 under the name Fırat Dicle, insults against socialism and socialist leaders are scattered throughout, sometimes subtly and sometimes openly. The “reconciliation” praised in Rojava — “Although it has shortcomings and inadequacies, it has major achievements and social reconciliation…” — is nothing other than the reconciliation of oppressor and oppressed, exploiter and exploited, landlord and serf, boss and worker.
In the article, Marx and Lenin are supposedly praised — which is questionable — yet at the same time it is claimed that one of the laws of Marxist-Leninist ideology, the irreconcilability of contradictions, must be overcome and the sides reconciled. This, they say, is what they achieved in Rojava. Such reconciliation is impossible. Anyone who defends such reconciliation has nothing to do with socialism — or even the left.
The following part of the article is its real purpose:
“Therefore, in socialism, Marxism, Leninism and Maoism, entirely new ideas must be created. Socialism must be re-examined and made social again. A livable socialism must be freed from misunderstandings and mentalities, revealing its social character. Socialism, which does not belong to only one class, must be addressed in a broad spectrum and made into something owned by society.”
Pay attention to the expression “not belonging to only one class”!
The project of reconciling the oppressed, the exploited, and the blood-drained workers with imperialism, with landlords, beys, and bosses has clearly collapsed in Rojava, and that is why this article is written — claiming that socialism must be made into something owned by society. Meaning: the poor must be convinced to accept exploitation (!).
YES, SOCIALISM BELONGS TO ONE CLASS ONLY.
THE SOCIALIST STATE IS THE MOST DEMOCRATIC STATE IN HISTORY, AND IT IS THE STATE OF THE PROLETARIAT. IT IS THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT. AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST UNTIL THE THOUGHTS, IDEOLOGY, AND INSTINCTS OF EXPLOITATION OF THE BOURGEOISIE ARE UPROOTED FROM HUMANITY. THE SOCIALIST STATE AIMS TO ELIMINATE THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE BOURGEOIS CLASS. THAT IS ITS VERY REASON FOR EXISTENCE.
The article does not only praise Rojava. It also spews baseness by saying, “Lenin’s Soviets turned into Soviet fascism together with Stalin”, without even bothering to show the meticulousness imperialists use when attacking Stalin. The effort to equate Hitler and Stalin — one of the imperialists’ longstanding propaganda lies born of their inability to stomach the defeat they suffered at the hands of the Soviet peoples under Stalin’s leadership — is perhaps one of the greatest distortions in history. It is a huge lie and distortion, and this is precisely why Stalin remains one of the most respected leaders in Russia and around the world. This fact is ignored in the article published on ANF.
It seems they believe that by attacking Stalin’s prestige in the eyes of the world’s peoples, they can legitimize the collaboration with imperialism in Rojava. They think they will achieve what imperialists have failed to do for decades.
Here is what is actually happening:
THE GREAT RESISTANCE CREATED AT THE COST OF THE MARTYRDOM OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF SOVIET PEOPLE AGAINST THE SIEGE OF IMPERIALISM AND THE VICTORY THEY GAVE TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD DISTURB THE COLLABORATORS. BECAUSE IT EXPOSES THEIR COLLABORATION. The homeland defense carried out under Stalin undermines the credibility of the theory used by U.S. collaborators: “If we do not rely on the U.S., they will destroy us”. This is why they are hostile to the victory obtained under Stalin’s leadership.
And this is also why they are hostile to the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people, who — with nothing but their dignity — resist the enormous military power of imperialism’s client Israel to protect even a single inch of Gaza. According to them, imperialism cannot be defeated: “Israel is invincible, the U.S. is invincible, resistance is futile! One must surrender and live under their protection, with the crumbs they give.”
But both the Soviet people and the Palestinian people pulverized imperialism and defended their honor.
This is the reason behind the attacks, lies, and slanders of the Kurdish nationalists and the article’s author against socialism and leaders of world revolutions.
The article claims that there is democratic (!) socialism in Rojava and asserts that it surpasses all of humanity’s historical socialist experiences — yet it provides no economic or political basis for this. It cannot. Because in the lands ruled by the U.S., under collaboration, there can be no trace of socialism. Above all, the U.S., to whom they have handed over their will, would never permit it. The U.S. is the force that carried out countless intrigues, sabotage operations, dirty wars, massacres, counter-guerrilla organizations, invasions, annexations, coups, sieges, embargoes, and many more attacks for decades to destroy socialist countries. The U.S. ties its very existence to the destruction of socialism.
Where cooperation with the U.S. is practiced, where one comes when called and leaves when told, where not a single word of the U.S. is disobeyed — there is no revolution, no democracy. There is certainly no socialism.
This is as clear as two plus two equals four.
