AMED - Sociologist Ronaldo Munck, who announced his support for the Call for Peace and a Democratic Society, said, "The Kurdish Movement will go down in history as the pioneer of a non-separatist local democracy movement in the Middle East.”

 

Messages of support from around the world continue to pour in for the Call for Peace and a Democratic Society made by Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan on 27 February 2025. 

 

In a message sent to the Mezopotamya Agency (MA) regarding the process, sociologist Ronaldo Munck’s message reads: "I support Kurdish leader Öcalan’s Call for Peace and Democracy. At a time when right-wing politics and nationalist inward-looking tendencies are intensifying, an organization that pursued armed struggle for forty years has dissolved itself and renounced separatism. This courageous initiative is the result of a new perspective that goes beyond the classical logic of national liberation and envisions a form of universality that is emancipatory without being oppressive toward identity. I also find Öcalan’s conception of democratic socialism—one that prioritizes local organization and does not aim at seizing state power—particularly noteworthy. The Kurdish Movement represents far more than identity politics alone. I believe that contemporary democratic opposition will be organized from the local level, and that the Kurdish Movement will go down in history as the pioneer of a non-separatist local democracy movement in the Middle East.

 

I stand firmly in support of the equal and democratic unity of the Kurdish and Turkish peoples. I salute your struggle."

 

WHO IS RONALDO MUNCK?

 

Ronaldo Munck (born 1951, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Irish sociologist. He completed his doctorate in political sociology at the University of Essex, focusing particularly on Latin America, globalisation, labour studies and development theory. His academic work revolves around dependency theory, the state, class and social transformation. His works Politics and Dependency in the Third World: The Case of Latin America, which examines the political and social structure of Latin America within a historical framework, and Labour and Globalisation: A New Great Transformation?, which discusses global labour relations, reflect his fundamental approaches. Munck held academic positions in Ireland and the United Kingdom for many years and has been influential internationally in the field of critical political sociology.