"If we get no opening to the outside world, our economy will stay the same, and there will be no development. But we need outside investment. To organize it, the government has passed a law called “open economy” to organize it. Any outside investor would have to respect the economy... We passed a law for it, but up to now we’ve had no investors. They have no access to our country. No one from outside has come and invested here. All the investment is local. The private companies are all local".
(A Presentation by Abdurrahman Hemo, adviser for economic development in Cizîre Canton, Dêrîk)
http://www.biehlonbookchin.com/rojavas-threefold-economy/
Well, one could argue that it
Well, one could argue that it is the socialist aspirations of the Rojava experiment in Democratic-Confederalism that is keeping potential foreign investors away. However, more likely what is keeping foreign investors away are other factors. First of all, few capitalists are going to be eager to invest money in an active war zone marked by precarious active fronts. Neither are capitalists likely to be eager to invest under the jurisdiction of self-declared autonomous political entity that is not legally recognized as such by any nation on earth, much less so considering the fact that the entity in question is alleged to have ties to a U.S. designated terrorist organization.
If it's goal is to attract foreign investors the PYD is going to have get some legal recognition for it's autonomous program in Rojava and also demonstrate a willingness and ability to enforce laws protecting capitalist investment against any aspirations to the contrary among Rojava's working classes. If foreign investment is their main concern then it would probably also be a prudent move for the PYD to severe ties to the PKK, as well as PJAK, which would basically mean serving ties to the KCK.
Also even these other factors considered the PYD will likely have to wait until Daesh and Nusra are no longer breathing down Rojava's proverbial neck before any foreign capitalist investors are willing to explore the possibilties for investment in Rojava.
Just saying.
You don't have to depend on a
You don't have to depend on a single quotation from February 25, 2015 that you discovered today. TEV-DEM lays out what role and regulation investment in their cooperatives would mean in this document from February 10, 2016: http://www.pasewan.com/English/Detail.aspx?Jimare=161
They even tell you what a share costs in Syrian pounds.
I edited my post and changed
I edited my post and changed the term "pretensions" to "aspirations" in the first sentence because I do think that it is fair to say that Democratic-confederalism does contain socialist aspirations even if they appear to be of a more Social-Democratic then revolutionary nature.
Also, Flint not sure if addressing me or the OP?
OP.
OP.
Socialism in one country?
Socialism in one country?
whirlwind wrote: Socialism in
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Well, they have an intermediate goal of four.
Quote: Socialism in one
Ethnic democracy in one canton and bombs for the rest of the world.
Jacobin magazine has a new
Jacobin magazine has a new article up on their website that makes a good case that the alleged transformation of the PKK from what was once basically a Stalinist cult into a now thoroughly reformed humanistic organization that embraces the precepts of a radical direct democracy may not be quite so sincere as the PKK and it's affiliates in the KCK make it out to be.
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There was also this earlier
There was also this earlier article by Alex de jong on this site here:
http://libcom.org/history/stalinist-caterpillar-libertarian-butterfly-evolving-ideology-pkk-alex-de-jong
whirlwind wrote: Socialism in
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... and now "Rojava Revolution" and its democratic confederalism... Let's enjoy!!!