Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would‘ve questioned themselves...

Kurdish YPG fighters of Syrian Kurdistan. Photo: AFP

Omar Sindi | Special to iKurd.net
Washington

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would‘ve questioned themselves on how the “Utopian Socialism” failed everywhere, but still the Rojava Kurds’ Authority are trying to envision this theory again! WOW!

“U.S. military aid is fueling big ambitions for Syria’s leftist Kurdish militia” –The Washington Post. Since the early 90’s, the Kurdish plight has gained international sympathy and empathy for the Kurdish nation‘s right and justified cause against unjust suppressions particularly in Southern Kurdistan-Iraq, and in Rojava Kurdistan-Syria; at the time in 2014 the “Daesh”- terrorists ISIS/ISIL attacked both Southern Kurdistan-Iraq and Rojava Kurdistan-Syria, in particular at Kobani city; without the support of U.S. airstrikes, military assistance, and Europeans aid, it would’ve been impossible to sustain these ferocious attacks, and the question is how Kurdish leaderships can strengthen this support for Kurdish people’s right?

However, the complexity of socialism and communism and of its failure is beyond the scope of this narrative; there is overwhelming empirical evidence that those countries which went through the concept theory of utopian socialism, their results have been counterproductive politically and economically on its status of experiment; in the former Soviet Union produced Oligarchy, and Cuba and North Korea both created dynasty roles, etc…

But never the less, there are still some “useful idiots”, or Cadres, of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, PYD/ YPG, who with a myopic vision are trying to implement the fallacy notion project, the failed concept theory of utopian socialism in Rojava Kurdistan.

If there is any lesson to be learned by studying the history, the social engineering policy has failed economically, socially and politically; a few examples: Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe over 30 years of rule, and North Korea under the Kim dynasty; in my view if any political party or a politician(s) think that the utopian Socialism will work, then they should be considered intellectually deficit!

There is a very well-known expression: Divide and Conquer. Since the time of the Ottoman Empire and Safavid dynasty, Iran and prior to that, our neighboring countries have for generations been able to use this tactic, or methodology in order to control the Kurdish people’s ambitions; whether this controlling would be under the banner of a religious unity, or pitting them against each other, political parties competing for domination or for political ascendency in their domain, or through individual politicians who put his interest above and beyond the national interest… etc.; for example, the Kurdish born Mehmed Zia Gokalp who became the vehement Turkish nationalist in which with his other Turkish associates, dragged the Ottoman Empire into World War 1, for the sake of “Pan-Turkism and Turanism”; and at the same time later on, Golkap assisted Mustafa Kemal Turk in his Turkic policy reform agendas.

During the height of the Cold war era in 1960’s and 70’s, many leftists political parties in the world did have a sense of nationalism, while on the contrary, the Kurdish leftist parties or its members were leaning universalist. In late 1960’s and 70’s in Iraq, the communist party’s Kurdish members became the Ba’athist regime‘s tools for propaganda in Eastern European socialist camp against the Kurdish liberation movement in South Kurdistan-Iraq under the leadership of Gen. Mustafa Barzani.

The Kurdish people are living under purgatory status, sick and tired of a self- destructive train wreck; for over a century these political discourses and political polarizations being one of the main factor of the Kurdish struggle for liberation movements have not achieved the aspired goal; the Kurdish people are the largest nation in the world with no state of their own.

At the same time, when the political suitability presents itself, to seize the opportunity, the movement doesn’t update itself. A single political party’s ideology is similar to an old fashioned tribal chief system’s ideology on his domain, because both concepts focus on a single perimeter; they don’t adhere to a national interest. The Kurdish curse is the divisiveness. It appears that any time the opportunity is within grasp for the Kurds, malediction would occur – a vermin would revive itself, and take over the reign.

Last but not least: One shouldn’t underestimate dictators or autocratic policy; for example, in late 1920’s, Joseph Stalin removed the Kurdish autonomous region in the Caucasus area, “Red Kurdistan” from the map!!

Omar Sindi, a senior writer, analyst and columnist for iKurd.net, Washington, United States.

The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.