Prison Writings

The prison writings of Kurdish freedom fighter and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan

Autorentext
Abdullah Ocalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on 15th February 1999. He is a leading strategist and the most important political representative of the Kurdish freedom movement. Under isolation conditions at Imrali Island Prison, Ocalan authored more than 10 books which revolutionised Kurdish politics, including The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (Pluto, 2017), and Prison Writings, Volumes I and II (Pluto, 2007; 2011).

Klappentext
The prison writings of Kurdish freedom fighter and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan

Zusammenfassung
The prison writings of Kurdish freedom fighter and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan

Inhalt
Translator's introduction; SECTION 1: SLAVE-OWNING SOCIETY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILISATION; Introduction; 1 The birth of civilisation on the banks of Tigris and Euphrates; 2 The historical role of Sumerian civilisation; 3 Permanent effects of Sumerian civilisation; 4 Some methodological problems concerning historical development and expansion; 5 The expansion and maturity of slavery; 6 Tribal confederations, local and territorial states; 7 Resistance to slaveholder civilisation and its reform; 9 Medes, Persians and the making of the East; SECTION 2: THE AGE OF FEUDAL CIVILISATION; Chapter1 The ideological identity of the feudal age; 2 Islam as a revolutionary force of the feudal age; 3 Institutionalisation and expansion of feudal civilisation; 4 Climax and decay of feudal civilisation; 5 Some conclusive remarks on Sections 1 and 2; SECTION 3: THE CIVILISATION OF THE AGE OF CAPITALISM; 1 The birth of capitalism and its new ideological identity; 2 The development and institutionalisation of capitalist civilisation; 3 Capitalist expansion and the climax of capitalist civilisation; 4 The overall crisis of civilisation and the age of democratic civilisation; SECTION 4: IDEOLOGICAL IDENTITY AND TIMESPACE CONDITIONS OF THE NEW DEVELOPMENT IN CIVILISATION.

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