• protist@mander.xyz
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    18 hours ago

    The YPG is a Kurdish militia in Syria who are libertarian socialists. They fought ISIS and Assad, and Erdogan hates them and has attacked them along the Turkish border. The US had given them consistent support until Trump abandoned them in his first term.

    I don’t know who the bereted man is though.

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      He is Murray Bookchin, an anarchist philosopher who developed the theory of social ecology. Although he kind of got disillusioned with anarchism later on and created his own thing called communalism