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title: '<cite class="book">To Dare Imagining</cite>'
author: Ben
type: quotes
date: 2020-10-31T14:54:00+00:00
url: /quotes/to-dare-imagining/
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A popular systematic mobilization seemed to have been beyond the imaginary of the left for a long time, and now it should come from the Kurdish regions of war-torn Syria? As if emerging from the secret, unwritten corners of history&mdash;with a smile nonetheless&mdash;was not enough, the Kurds are now given the task of passing the litmus test on behalf of all revolutions that ever existed.
</p><footer>Dilar Dirik,
<cite class="article">Rojava: To Dare Imagining</cite></footer>
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> To top it off, such an ordinary looking anti-charismatic fellow, Ocalan&mdash;a face in the crowd&mdash;as in the portraits hung everywhere; a little plump, sober and serious, no beard, no moustache, no pony-tail, no Cuban cigar, dull clothing like an accountant or like ex-wheat-trader Ismet. Age 68. A Santa Claus with a set of great ideas in his sleigh.<footer>Michael Taussig,
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> <cite class="article">Kobane: The Mastery of Non-mastery</cite></footer>