Claire's Brother
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2,353 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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It existed within Catalan anti-fascism in the 1930s.
Like, we are a nation which has been suppressed by the state, so we will build a nationalism that doesn't suppress people, right?
We saw the same thing with Kurdish people, right, with the Kurdish freedom movement.
Their understanding, I would say, was more advanced than the Catalans in that their analysis was that we are a nation that has been suppressed by multiple states, and therefore we will build society without the state in order to create a world where there is no boot so we can't trade on people.
I still believe that that is possible, but in the last decade,
Six months, you know, I've seen people back away from that within Kurdistan, right, and start talking again about the Brotherhood of Peoples was a mistake.
They feel betrayed.
I don't think those people had considered themselves to be superior, but they feel that their project didn't work.
That really makes me sad.
ultimately the brotherhood of nations like didn't succeed in Syria.
Right.
And we've seen it effectively at like Syria, still called the Syrian Arab Republic after hundreds of thousands of people gave their lives, uh, for it to be a place where everyone could be free.
And, uh, yeah, it, it really saddens me to see that, that like, uh,
Like, I really hoped for something better.
This idea of, like, brotherhood of nations, which acknowledges people's differences, but doesn't create a hierarchy.
But we're not, we haven't made it quite work yet, I guess.
And I guess we live in a world, right, where the appeal to nationalism and bigotry and the idea, like, specifically in Syria, I think that, like, Arabs should not be equal to Kurds was appealing through making that appeal.
This project was able to be sabotaged, I guess.
Yeah.
I think that while we're still forging different approaches to liberation, trying to figure out what that looks like, we've seen the track record of nationalism, is my point.
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