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I've found what's happening in north eastern Syria to be interesting. This area was previously under the religious fundamentalist rule of Islamic State, who we
by aussieguy1234 1y ago
I've found what's happening in north eastern Syria to be interesting.
This area was previously under the religious fundamentalist rule of Islamic State, who were pushed out by a Anarchist/Libertarian socialist milita, around half of whom were women (much to the dislike of ISIS, whose fighters believed if they were killed by a woman, they don't get to go to heaven).
Currently it's the first example of a working Anarchist system.
No laws means that capitalism isn't illegal, so it still exists there.
But most of the economy is based on cooperatives and wages are three times higher than the rest of the country.
They smartly played the global power order, letting the Americans develop their oil and the Russians develop their gas.
Unlike what many may think, people don't go around killing each other without laws in place - which does happen in the rest of Syria under a statist (State based) system of government.
- t1E9mE7JTRjf 1y agoI don't know where to being commenting on this, you've raised quite a few points. I've travelled to both Northern Iraq and Syria. Iraq while ISIS were there, Syria before the conflicts started. I'd be interested if there was a documentary / podcast / etc you could point me to, in order to better understand all that you're presenting. Either way, very glad ISIS was pushed back. I don't have the words to describe how horrible the situation seemed there.