An Article by Journalist Perivan Shaho

The clan, as the basic building block of social life, formed a free and equality-based social structure centered on women and the mother and embracing human diversity, which had a profound impact on the course of human history. In clan societies, the responsibility of raising children fell on the mother, and the entire society revolved around her. In this context, language, culture, and values were the product of women's creativity, and this in turn generated a feeling of envy among groups of men toward women.

Here the roots of violence against women and the values emerging from it stand out. These groups initially sought to enslave women and children and kill the men who were like brothers to these women; then their practices soon turned toward killing, destruction, and looting.

In this regard, leader Abdullah Öcalan describes these actors, who represent a caste system, as the first manifestation of historical violence, or terrorism directed against "natural society." In order to eliminate the collective character of clans and impose a social system serving their own interests, they resorted to using terrorism in its ugliest and cruelest forms. They forcibly imposed the transition to agriculture and settled life, forced humans to work inside temples, and sometimes even went as far as practicing human sacrifice. Elsewhere, he refers to the site of "Göbekli Tepe," dating back 12,000 years, as the first temple in which the human mind and heart were subjected to the control of this caste system, giving birth with it to the suffering of all humanity.

Aristocracy is nothing but an extension of the caste system, even if it took a different form and wore a different mask. Because absolute violence lies at the core of the caste system, aristocracy seeks to subjugate everything it sees as a threat to it under its control.

To give an example of the effects of the aristocratic system in our present time, it suffices to look at the barriers that prevent women from participating in political work and in managing the affairs of the country. The existence of these obstacles proves that no matter how hard they try to hide their true nature behind a mask of "soft policies," the policies they pursue are in reality nothing but a direct reflection of their underlying mentality.

Leader Abdullah Öcalan defines the aristocratic system as a form of historical violence, or a second type of terrorism. The maternal society received a fatal blow at the hands of this aristocratic structure, a process embodied by many mythological narratives, such as the Babylonian creation myth in which "Marduk" tears apart the goddess.

In another context, it is noted that this group tightened its control starting from villages up to the entire world by spreading terror, thus imposing its own hegemony. They sought to legitimize their actions by employing theology, and thanks to possessing the most advanced weapons and technologies, they practiced terrorism in a comprehensive and extremely horrifying manner.

Over time, and with the development of an authoritarian masculine mode of thinking, this deadly caste system imposed an increasingly deep hegemony over both nature and society. Here the term "masked massacre" refers to a policy so cruel that the victims may not even realize they have been "beheaded."

As for the agents of this system, they are the "bourgeoisie" or city dwellers who played a direct role in transforming social, economic, and cultural values, simultaneously with the development of cities and the rise of the bourgeois class itself. Leader Abdullah Öcalan describes the bourgeois system as "a third type of terrorism."

The basic mode of thinking on which the bourgeoisie or the urban class is based arose as a reaction to the aristocratic structure, a stage in which the entire society is subjected to severe repression and in which the most comprehensive and cruel forms of terrorism are unleashed against humans, nature, and all living beings.