Abdullah Öcalan – Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization (comple...

Written from solitary confinement on İmralı Island, where the Kurdish leader has been imprisoned since his 1999 abduction, this three-volume manifesto is Öcalan's most systematic statement of political philosophy. Volume I, Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings, traces how civilizations use religion and ideology to legitimize domination; Volume II, Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings, dissects the modern state, the economy, and "capitalist modernity"; Volume III, The Sociology of Freedom, lays out his alternative — "democratic civilization" and "democratic modernity" — a decentralized, ecological, gender-equal society beyond the nation-state. Drawing on Gramsci, Marx, and his own movement's decades of struggle, Öcalan argues that the crisis of the capitalist world-system is also a crisis of knowledge, and that liberation now requires a new way of thinking, not just a new political program. This edition is an original, full audiobook rendering of all three volumes in his own voice.