Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

stamped them as rightwing, extremist and chauvinist
views. However, we answer them in advance that such
description as chauvinism has not been ever for the
oppressed but for the oppressors; and never in the history
there has been a people oppressed and their rights
neglected yet described as chauvinists at the same time.
As for extremism so where is the extremism in calling
for our natural rights that all the nations in the world are
enjoying. We are not asking for more than them, so if
doing that we were regarded as chauvinists and extremists,
then all the nations of the world have piped us in extremism
and chauvinism by establishing their own states. As for
the rightwing description we say that let them read the
theories of the left well to understand that we are asking
for the right of self-determination for the Kurdish people
transforming them in this way from the slavery formation
into freedom, and such transformation is a progressive
revolutionary one. A progressive revolution is to put an
end to all outdated regressive phenomena and create a
new life much more advanced. Also on the other hand
the application of autonomy (rather than independence)
would economically result only in the support and
guarantees for the interests of the bourgeoisie in the cities
of Kurdistan, because its interests are reflected in the
continuation of its dependence on the Arabic, Turkish
and Persian bourgeoisie in the capitals of the countries
occupying Kurdistan.
The autonomy is another political and economical nail
in the coffin of the Kurdish people in order to exploit
them economically in the interest of the local bourgeoisie
and politically, ideologically as well as economically in
the interest of the bourgeoisie of the countries occupying
Kurdistan. On that basis the independence of Kurdistan
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