“ROJAVA - THE UTOPIA OF A DEFEATED WESTERN LEFT”

iNSIGHTS | VOL 2 | ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2020
More than that, did they not even
remember what happened to them, to their
own people, when the U.S. abandoned them to
the gas attacks of Saddam after inciting them to
rise against his rule?
To end on the obligé “optimistic note”,
Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government does
seem to be a successful model for Kurdish
autonomy, one that at least has proven to be
far more viable than “Rojava” and deserves to
be studied further, for possible emulation of
the process that has led to its creation, though
Syria or Turkey are certainly not Iraq. The
KRG confirms further the axiom above, as
despite constant frictions with Baghdad, it
would never have seen the light of day without
the consent, support, and active, sustained
cooperation of Turkey, Iraq, and Western
powers themselves.
By contrast, trying to create an
independent “Rojava” in the midst of that
region, with that type of ideological DNA,
without and against the will of the real players
and neighbors, always was and will remain
doomed from the start.
> Some sections of this paper originated in
discussions that took place on the Sociology of Islam
and Muslims academic forum.
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