​​​​​​​Leader Abdullah Ocalan: About Prison Life on Imrali Island_5

There is no aspect of Imrali that I cannot bear, except for the physical causes which cause health problems. My strength of spirits, awareness, and will have not regressed at all from what they were in the past, but rather have become more pure, succumbed to aesthetics, and enriched with aspects of glorious progress. And with the rise in the level of explanation of social facts by means of science, philosophy and aesthetics, the possibilities of a more correct, virtuous and beautiful life increase. I would rather live alone in my solitary room until my last breath than live with people who have been misled by capitalist modernity from the path of truth.

I am not a very fanciful person

The question on our people’s minds in connection with my life in Imrali is: Where and how will I live if I get out of prison. I am not a very fanciful person. Everyone knows for sure that I have a style of life called revolutionary realism. And if the approach of my past life, starting from the days of childhood, is studied, instead of looking at my life after leaving prison; He will find a better answer to such questions. For the "first rebellions" that I showed against family supremacy when I was under the age of ten are marked by important signs in this respect. Since then I have been a lone rebel. In the pleading, I have tried from time to time to list my attempts to object to the village and city communities. Those concerned can find within it the necessary answers to their questions.

Whoever joins me or seeks to benefit from me without understanding me as a person and a leader, may feel discouraged.

I will put it briefly: life for me is only possible when it is lived freely. By explaining the question: “What is a free life?”, I sought to lay the groundwork for this last plea, consisting of five volumes. A life devoid of morals, justice, and politics is a life that should not be lived on a societal level. Civilization in general and capitalist modernity in particular enable wrong living, lives immersed in various forms of slavery, full of hypocrisy, and charged with demagoguery and individualism. And it works to convince others of it through monopolies of oppression and ideological exploitation that it forms. In this way, events called social issues appear. It is incumbent on every person who calls himself a revolutionary, whether we call him a socialist, a libertarian, a democrat or a communist; To object and rebel against civilization based on excessive oppression and exploitation by class, the city and power, and against the prevailing lifestyles in modern eras.

How do we live with a woman

The other curious question related to this is the lifestyle with the woman. From time to time, in all volumes of my pleading, I touched on the question: How do we live with women? I especially mention the extreme importance of living with women in the context of modernity. It is an issue that cannot be solved by asking for the woman’s hand or looking for her, or by deceiving her or living with her in the “private” or “public” house, or by sharing life with or without children. In order to solve this issue, which occupies the cornerstone in the heart and mind of social issues, it is necessary to work primarily with a scientific, philosophical, ethical and aesthetic approach. A free, equal life with women in our time, that is, under the conditions of capitalist modernity, requires a spirit of supreme responsibility and a scientific, philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic approach to it. Without knowing the situation in which women have been thrust throughout the history of civilization and in the modern era, and without the ability to approach them morally and aesthetically; Whatever the form of unity experienced with it, all types of life with it will end - inevitably - with errors, immorality, and ugliness.

If the struggle that I went through is read and its consequences are understood, life with women will be lived in a more ethical and aesthetic way.

Not squandering life depends first on achieving the correct, ethical and aesthetic forms of life with women. Analyzing the identity of the woman (on whom all forms of slavery are represented and tested) and sharing her quest for freedom and equality as a companion on the path of life constitutes the initial condition for becoming a healthy, moral and beautiful man. If the relevant lines of the pleading are read with a proper eye, you will better understand my motives for attaching great importance to such a mode of life and for making it a constant principle. As the most horrible forms of moral degradation, heinousness, and ugliness are generated by a lifestyle immersed in the reactionary and primitive concept of sexual "mastery of women" (a form of relationship that distorts even biological sexual orientations), which is imposed by the morality of civility centered on power in the guise of modernity. Having read the struggle that I waged against that, and the consequences of it were understood in a correct manner; Life with women will be lived in a more ethical and aesthetic way. Therefore, every man and woman who bear the burden of responsibility in this context (and women in particular here) should always improve their practical approaches and practices in the scientific, philosophical, ethical and aesthetic fields, and organize them and work to revive them in the mindset of the democratic nation and its institutions. This is in order for them to strengthen themselves, organize themselves, and enjoy parallel and equal levels in various social fields.

It is not possible to live human life except in a free, democratic and societal way that is full of equality within difference, whether a person is free or imprisoned, and whether he is in his mother’s womb or at any moment or place within the vast space. All other forms of life are abnormal, and therefore pathological. In order for life to be restored to its correct course, to be healed and to recover, a persistent struggle must be waged with all kinds of words and social action, including the achievement of the revolution. For this purpose, the necessary mentality and will must be formed morally, aesthetically, philosophically and scientifically. So, this is the case, and in the event that I am released from prison, wherever my place is or the moment I live in, I will, of course, persevere until my last breath in waging the continuous struggle with all kinds of words and actions for the sake of the community to which I strive to achieve belonging; And for the sake of the Kurds who are living its most tragic reality, and their national democratic transformation, which is their path to solution and liberation; and for the "Union of Democratic Nations", which is the path to solution and salvation for the neighboring peoples first and for all the peoples of the Middle East of which the Kurds are a part; Likewise for the "Union of International Democratic Nations", which is the path to solution and salvation for all the peoples of the world, of which the peoples of the Middle East are an integral part. And I will persevere in my path depending on the personality of the truth that has obtained an abundant share of the truth in me, and fortified with the necessary moral, aesthetic, philosophical and scientific strength for that; I will earn a life on it, and I will share it with all.

T/ Satt.

ANHA