Ive read so many conflicting things about modern Rojava/the Kurdish part of Syria and this aspect seems vital. Are these long term imperialist allies? Generally I see it discussed in the context of the modern occupation of Syria, where the YPG is helping the US steal Syria’s oil. I really don’t know much about it outside of my country’s current occupation and my interest was sparked by that True Anon guy who went and fought there. At that point I thought it was just imperialist but when he started talking against the US propaganda against Assad, fake gas attacks, etc it made me think there may be more to it, and perhaps not another Kosovo/Yugoslavia type situation.
I have not read much about the Kurds in Syria, but the Baath party in Iraq recognized the Kurds as a nation deserving self determination. Like many artificial countries, they preferred to work together with them to build Iraq, rather than split along ethnic lines. The Baath knew that foreign influence was getting in the way of working with Kurds, and so was history, but they still wanted resolve the Kurdish National Question peacefully.
They speak about this in Chapter 4 Section 3 of their report on their revolution here: https://www.marxists.org/history/iraq/baath/ch04.htm
They work with the west, there is going to be a problem.
If the main contradiction is western imperialism and hegemony; then even the most sincere left wing communist project that accepts working relations with the west… Inside the emenies of the west no less; must regrettably be resisted.
Any revolutionary movement that sides with the west and assumes that the west will tolerate their communism or socialism for long once the west gets what it wants is naive.
If the west EVER tolerated socialism EVER in its history, the YPG wouldnt even be here and the USSR would still be around. Dengism wouldnt have been necessary.
