The women's question is humanity's oldest inequality and still the most burning social conflict today.
Half of the world's population is female and it is the Woman who gives birth to the other half. Despite this, for thousands of years, Women have been systematically suppressed, made invisible and forced to bear the heaviest burden of the Male-dominated order. This is not only a social problem, but also the longest-lasting mechanism of exploitation in history. However, this ancient heritage is still alive in the ancient memory of humanity, in the Alevi-Kizilbaş philosophy, a fourteen thousand year old culture that can be traced back to the second millennium B.C., which places the woman at the center of life, and defines the woman as the Goddess. If the fertility of Mother Earth transforms the seed as the power of life and the gateway to existence, the Woman has an existential structure and makes the sanctity of Woman a social principle.
The woman here is not just an individual, but life itself, the source of existence, the sacred subject. Today's world is in the hands of a system that shatters this ancient egalitarian heritage. The Capitalist Order objectifies the design of woman in line with the means of production, ignores her in the mechanism of exploitation, defines her with simple elements and wages intensified wars to ignore her true identity.
The Imperialist-Capitalist Male Dominated System compresses women into three basic categories. 1. She is a sexual object. 2. She is a child-bearing machine. 3. It defines her as an unpaid domestic worker and a maid. Capitalist modernity exploits women both at home, on the street and in the market. The advertising industry commodifies women's bodies, the fashion and cosmetics industry alienates women from their own bodies. In the sex market, the woman is turned into a directly saleable commodity. Social culture also reproduces this exploitation.
Father “He would be proud of his daughter”, Brother “Protecting your sister in society”, The person who will be the husband “what kind of woman chooses her idea”, If it's a boy, “looking at his mother determines what kind of family he will build”. Through these practices, women are turned into a tool to fulfill the emotional and economic needs of men. This picture is a summary of the value that capitalist modernity places on women, who are not a subject but an object.
The mass forces that fervently defend the Salafist/Jihadist-Religious Culture say that Woman is the Institutionalization of Silence, Violence and Obedience. The value assigned to women in historical interpretations of Islam is often based on an understanding that ignores, diminishes and subordinates them. The right of a man to marry more than one woman, women's testimony being considered incomplete, and the devaluation of women in the legal field are institutionalized examples of this understanding. Cults have deliberately chosen to make this mentality even darker through Salafist/Jihadist-terrorist organizations. The abuse of girls in Quran courses, the enslavement of women in sect houses, and the definition of women as beings to be obeyed are the current manifestations of this mentality. On the basis of the Salafist/Jihadist-Islamic culture, this picture is not only a problem of faith, but an ideological organization of the systematic disregard of women.
Attacks on Women by Salafist/Jihadist-Terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra, Taliban, ISIS, HTS are not only a part of the war but also an ideological choice of the Salafist/Jihadist-Islamic religious Culture. The enslavement of Yazdai Women in Sinjar, the abduction of Alawite and Kurdish Women in Syria, the sale of Women in Women's markets are the most naked forms of these organizations' policy of destroying Women. In the face of these attacks, the silence of those who speak of themselves in the market as representatives of Islam and religion, and the silence of religion-based political powers is not a coincidence, on the contrary, it is their most basic choice. Because there is a structural link between the ideological vein that these organizations feed on and the official religious discourses of the states. The strengthening of cults goes hand in hand with the institutionalization of misogyny.
Lenin's Historical Determination and the Test of Socialist Experiences. Lenin's thesis “There can be no Revolution without Women. Without Revolution, Woman cannot be liberated” is a historical determination that emphasizes that Revolutionary-Socialist movements must put Women's liberation at the center. However, this principle has not been fully realized in most Socialist States. Even though women have participated in production, gained the right to education and achieved legal equality, the cultural roots imposed on women in the historical process could not be uprooted. For this reason, the practice of the Revolutionary-Socialist experiences on Women's Liberation stands before us as both a progressive and incomplete legacy.
In this sense, the Kurdish People's demand for Liberation is the most concrete Women's Revolution in history. At this very point, the model put forward by the Kurdish People with their demand for Liberation has created a historical break. The emancipation of women is not only a theoretical discourse, but is embodied in organization, ideological education, self-defense and army formation. The fact that women have become the subject of war and the motor force of social transformation is a revolutionary move that is rarely seen in history. The Rojava Revolution is therefore not only a people's revolution but also a Women's Revolution. The Co-Presidency system in administrations, the equal and decisive role of women in Communes, Assemblies, Defense units, Diplomatic areas, the Women's problem in the Kurdish people's practice, is a historical intervention directed towards the past of Women.
The real reason behind the imperialist powers' attack on Rojava. The attacks of the imperialist powers against the Kurds in the Middle East cannot be explained only by geopolitical interests. The real target is the Women's Revolution sprouting in Rojava. Because a social model based on Women's Freedom is a direct threat to the Male-dominated Capitalist system. The attacks against Rojava are also a reflex to protect Male domination. A model in which women become subjective, determine their own destiny and transform society will move all the stones of the current world order. For this reason, the Rojava Revolution is a model not only for the Kurdish People, but for all Women and all Oppressed Peoples, Laborers and Revolutionary-Socialists.
When the gains in Rojava were strong, both the Kurdish movement and many initiatives called for the unification of the Kurds, but Barzani rejected this proposal every time. Barzani's support for Rojava is meaningful in this sense, while the US, the EU and the Arab tribes have withdrawn their support in Rojava and many proposals are marketed at the negotiating tables. It is not too far-fetched to define the main problem as the unity of the Women's Revolution in Rojava and the Male Dominated system. The US, the EU and all the forces that make up the HTS have emerged with a new program, unions formed to prevent the nature of the Rojava Revolution and the struggle for Women's Liberation, rather than the Status of the Kurds. It seems that, one way or another, the Women's Revolution will evolve into another form of struggle. The cornerstones of this will of course depend on the extent of the world contradiction between Labor and Capital.