Bookchin, Öcalan, and the Dialectics of Democracy - Janet Biehl - Hamburg 2012 by FreiheitXXI published on 2012-02-28T11:40:48Z After his abduction in 1999, Abdullah Öcalan initiated a profound rethinking of the Kurdish struggle for self-determination. To what extent has Öcalan been influenced by Murray Bookchin? What are the similarities between these two thinkers, and how did their ideas mature? Genre Speech