Forged during the Syrian war, Rojava’s experiment in radical self-government offers a lens for examining how the left sustains hope under siege.
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No see it doesn’t count because (list of arbitrary bullshit reasons)
There are two important questions about whether the lessons of this coalition government have value outside of its formative context:
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Can it scale? Can the organizing principles be extended to a second city, a province, a nation? How much of the strength of this group is built around the personalities of specific individuals who are providing a backbone of leadership that cannot be replicated elsewhere?
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Is it sustainable, ideologically? What happens when the outside threat which forced this group to unify is no longer felt, when the first generation which fought together and saved each others’ lives in a very real and practical sense dies and the following generations don’t feel the same sense of unity, didn’t bleed together, don’t share the same level of trust in each other? What sustains the group identity?
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