Kairos The Civilizational Crisis in the Middle East and the Democratic Civilization Solution: Manifesto of the Democratic Civil, (Paperback)

<p><b>The global crisis of civilization is<br>nowhere more visible than in the Middle East. Wars, authoritarian regimes, <br>social fragmentation, and ecological collapse converge into a single, <br>devastating picture. Abdullah Öcalan argues that the solution to this<br>crisis must be found in the same place where centralized civilization first<br>emerged 5,000 years ago.</b></p> <p></p><p>The fourth volume of Öcalan's<br><i>Manifesto of Democratic Civilization</i> traces the<br>region's deep historical crises while highlighting the many<br>traditions of resistance--religious, cultural, communal, and<br>antiauthoritarian--that have survived despite millennia of state<br>domination. These traditions, he argues, provide the building blocks for a<br>future beyond capitalist modernity.</p> <p></p><p>Drawing on the theoretical framework laid out in<br>earlier volumes, Öcalan offers a bold rereading of Middle Eastern<br>history, revealing how patriarchy, hierarchy, and empire became entrenched, and<br>how they can be dismantled. He presents democratic confederalism, a moral and<br>political society, and an ecological, women-centered economic order as the<br>essential pillars of a new civilizational model.</p> <p></p><p>In this volume, Öcalan emerges not only as<br>a strategist for resolving the Kurdish question but as a visionary for<br>democratizing the entire region. He closes with urgent questions that speak<br>directly to our global moment: How should we live? What must we do? And where<br>do we begin?</p> <p></p>

• Kairos The Civilizational Crisis in the Middle East and the Democratic Civilization Solution: Manifesto of the Democratic Civil, (Paperback)
• Author: Abdullah Öcalan
• ISBN: 9798887441931
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-09-15
• Page Count: 384