Capitalism: The Age Of Unmasked Gods And Naked Kings

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Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings is the second volume of Abdullah Ocalan's definitive five-volume work The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilisation. For years he has unravelled the sources of hierarchical relations, power, and the formation of nation-states that has led to capitalism's emergence and global domination. He makes the convincing argument that capitalism is not a product of the last four hundred years but a continuation of classical civilisation.

Abdullah OEcalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on February 15, 1999. Havin Guneser is an engineer, journalist, and women's rights activist who writes and speaks extensively on the topic of revolution in Rojava. Radha D'Souza is a reader in law specializing in international law and development, law in third-world societies, and resource conflicts in the third world.

"OEcalan builds upon the past insights to provide what is, in my opinion, the most succinct and most elaborate definition of democracy." --Andrej Grubacic, coauthor of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History "OEcalan presents himself as an outstanding expert on European intellectual history as well as the history and culture of the Near and Middle East. Against this background he reflects on the state of the international system and the conflict region of the Middle East after the collapse of real socialism as well as--very self-critically--the history of the PKK and his own political actions." --Werner Ruf, political scientist and peace researcher "OEcalan is the Gramsci of our time." --Tamir Bar-On, author of The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of the Global Sport "OEcalan's works make many intellectuals uncomfortable because they represent a form of thought which is not only inextricable from action, but which directly grapples with the knowledge that it is." --David Graeber author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years "OEcalan's writings written in captivity are thus in the tradition of the ideology of the PKK as a left national liberation movement, which also includes the claim to change their own society. However, OEcalan is apparently also one of those whose political thinking was sharpened by the forced abstinence from daily politics and who succeed in further developing their political thinking in captivity." --Thomas Schmidinger, author of The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds