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karimragab's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
History on a broad scale. March of empire and power’s tradition.
poenaestante's review against another edition
5.0
This book, being a brief study of human civiization since the Neolithic, is dense and hampered by the fact that Öcalan had to write it while in prison on Imrali Island (where he remains to this day). His work blows Bookchin's Eurocentric oeuvre out of the water and moves far beyond with a specific focus on female liberation as the path to all liberation. While I have my reservations about some of the process in Rojava, I know they are operating with extreme constraints and their aim is ever true! I feel like all paths from this book lead to James C. Scott's Against The Grain which I hope to get my hands on soon!
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