Expressing support for Abdullah Öcalan’s February 27 “Call for Peace and Democratic Society”, philosopher and cultural critic Santiago Zabala said, “Öcalan’s efforts must not be in vain.”
Philosopher Santiago Zabala released a message expressing support for Abdullah Öcalan’s February 27 “Call for Peace and Democratic Society”.
“The last two centuries of capitalist modernity, as Öcalan pointed out, have been shaped by the goal of dismantling the thousand-year-old cooperation and alliance between Turks and Kurds. Öcalan is rightly calling for a new cooperation and alliance,” Zabala said.
“This call must be supported, and the Turkish and Kurdish peoples must be encouraged to act together against the capitalist provocations of imperialism. Öcalan’s efforts must not be in vain,” Zabala added.
Santiago Zabala is a professor of philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. In his work, Zabala emphasizes that the “greatest emergency of the 21st century is the absence of emergency,” and he examines the concepts of art, politics, and freedom within this framework. According to him, the purpose of philosophy is to break the notion of “returning to the current order” imposed by surveillance capitalism and right-wing populism, and to make urgent issues such as the climate crisis and economic inequalities, which have not yet been sufficiently recognized, visible
