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

side of life, inspiring hope in the future and promoting
struggle and the revolution.
6. What should our stand be regarding ancient literature?
Shall we learn from it or refuse it entirely? In reality
we need to study ancient literature in order to learn
from it and in order to be able to build a bridge liking
the old and the new. This is important in order for our
literature to preserve its authenticity and the link with
the history of our people. We should not derive our
literary thoughts from other nations whatever their
civilization because the roots of literature should be
within its own society. It is also our duty to study our
own literature and history before studying the literature
and history of other nations.
7. Literature should also play a role in social issues
fighting ignorance, backwardness, provinciality,
sectarianism and feudalism and should promote gender
equality. This will not be possible without destroying
the colonial and backward thinking in all its forms
and the construction of a new society based on the
liberation of the land and the Kurdish individual at
the same time.
8. Literature should not be in conflict with the religious
affiliations of the masses. Instead it should respect
them. It should not hurt their feelings and it should
not lay out problems that the masses cannot
comprehend. It should not expect to eradicate, in one
stroke, what hundreds of thousand of years of tradition
have built up. This does not mean that literature should
remain at the level of the masses. Literature offers the
masses its exemplary thinking but if it progresses too
much it can distance and isolate itself.
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