Category: Cultural Intelligence

Syrian Kurds have launched an unlikely radical experiment in governance without hierarchy, patriarchy or capitalism.

Their leaders developed their guiding philosophy out of a long engagement with Murray Bookchin, who fused Marxist and anarchist ideals into a vision of a world where citizens' assemblies supplant state bureaucracy and environmentalism is king. Debbie Bookchin told HuffPost her father insisted “we could only heal our relationship with the natural world when all forms of hierarchy were abolished.”

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