Stateless Democracy

federalism and democratic autonomy. This system is not
alternative to state-formation, but alternative to the state.
Our present-day democracies developed after the Roman
democracy, which is representative rather than participatory.
Thus, majority rules and the elite decide on fundamental
issues on our behalf. Democratic autonomy, on the
other hand, is radical democracy with woman’s organized
participation and decision-making placed at the forefront,
with all sections of society organizing and directly participating
in decision-making in order to be able to decide on
matters that concern them directly and indirectly.
Thus, the women’s freedom movement went through
several restructuring periods. There was a need for a
women’s organization that transcended party structures
and was a more flexible and comprehensive confederal
women’s organization. In 2005, the High Women’s Council
(KJB) was founded. As a result, action and organizational
restructuring took place to implement the formation of
the new paradigm based on democracy and ecological
and women’s freedom. The High Women’s Council was
established to become the coordination point between
the self-defense units, social organizations, the Women’s
Freedom Party of Kurdistan (PAJK), and the young women’s
organization. In September of 2014, the women’s
organization went through another transformation and
has in the meantime changed its name accordingly to
KJK. This transformation was needed in order to equally
and comprehensively deal with the needs of society and
the formation of required institutions, so as to continue
with the transformation of the male mentality, democratization
of society, and to create the ethics and aesthetics
of free life. Women are thus organizing themselves from
the local level in all forms of decision-making. They take
all decisions regarding themselves on their own and are
represented from the local level to all different levels when
taking decisions that concern the whole of society. Other
sections of society — the youth, elderly, professionals, the
pious masses, craftworkers — they, too, are organized so
that power and hierarchical formations and structures
cannot be perpetuated, as any attempt is stopped through
such mechanisms.
If the woman’s enslavement has been perpetuated
on three levels — the construction of ideological slavery,
the use of force, and the seizure of the economy from
her — then these three areas must be dealt with
simultaneously as well.
Intellectual Duties and Education
When we look at history, we can trace the enslavement of
women and, subsequently, the whole of society. This development
was first and foremost ideological; indeed, hierarchy
literally means “rule by the priest.” There is a profound
need to expose the history of the colonization of women,
and with it, women’s economic, social, political, and intellectual
colonization. This would mean the exposure of the
history of humanity for the whole of society. The more
science and knowledge were tied down to capital and the
monopoly of power, the more they began to target moral
and political society. Civilization established a monopoly
on both science and knowledge, thus detaching them from
society and especially women. This in turn meant detachment
from life and the environment.
Economy, Industrialism, Ecology
The economy is the third force, after ideology and violence,
through which women and all of society were
entrapped and forced into dependence. Economy literally
means “house-holding.” In the women’s order, however,
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