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I remove Öcalan photo that was in the middle of the article make it clumsy to read, and change the formatting a little bit --Il giovane bello 73 (talk) 03:48, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
Why is this political philosophy capitalised? Others aren't unless they're named after people. Alfie Gandon (talk) 15:09, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
The source http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/55650 dos not mention the notion democratic federalism, so there is no basis to say that democratic confederalism is also called democratic federalism. Moreover, there should be other sources using this term, and there are not. Finally, democratic federalism is a general concept that has an already established meaning (the ideologies that favour democratic federal states), and that is very different from the anti-statist and ant-nationalist notion of democratic confederalism. I suggest democratic federalism should be removed unless more sources support that it can be considered a synonym. EnricX (talk) 10:45, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
The article, as written, is a coat rack that repeats lots of other info unrelated to the core idea of "democratic confederalism" from other articles. The first section on the history of the Kurdish people and PKK has dedicated articles. The second section on Bookchin's influence is exclusively sourced to a Bookchin reader (affiliated source) by Biehl (who had a particularly partial connection to Bookchin)—such a section for such assertions should be sourced with more editorial distance. (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.) The rest of the sources cite an Öcalan reader, another primary source.
What remains does not add any light to the concept of "democratic confederalism" that isn't already covered in Abdullah Öcalan#Democratic confederalism as paraphrased from the New York Times feature article. Since democratic confederalism is exclusively associated with Öcalan, it would make sense to build out its ideas summary style within that parent section, splitting out to Politics of Rojava as appropriate. czar 20:53, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
The article states that Democratic Confederalism is based on "sharing economy". This is not correct. Even though several terms are used to describe the alternative economic system that is proposed and some concepts of a sharing economy are surely part of it, describing the concept of "sharing economy" (as defined in the linked article) is not accurate. Terms that a more often used are: Communal economy, ecological industry or cooperative economy. More precisely, the cooperative economy is one important part of the communal economy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.255.45.131 (talk) 09:54, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
I personally think a section on the larger philosophy promoted by Öcalan should be added to this page considering it’s a huge part of his work and undoubtedly a part of his system of Democratic Confederalism in general. He largely dives into his philosophical ideas in the “Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization” series so you could use those books as sources and cite the page numbers. If you also want secondary sources, I can find a few articles about him online mentioning some parts of his philosophy and his philosophical influences Serok Ayris (talk) 18:00, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
Concerns about synthesis led me here, wondering if the association of democratic confederalism with libertarian socialism had any backing in sources. And sure enough, none of the sources in this article for claims that democratic confederalism is a form of libertarian socialism verify this. Two of them were primary sources from Ocalan, neither of which even mention "libertarian socialism". The other two were secondary sources, the first of which also never mentions "libertarian socialism" and the second of which never references it in relation to democratic confederalism.
So I'm here asking if there are any sources for that explicitly, verifiably describe democratic confederalism as a form of libertarian socialism? Or is this yet another invention of Wikipedia synthesis? -- Grnrchst (talk) 08:39, 18 July 2023 (UTC)