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Selected Works of İbrahim Kaypakkaya

The Selected Works of Ibrahim Kaypakkaya includes some of the most influential writings by this major leader of the Communist movement in Turkey, and founder of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML). The Selected Works are necessary reading for anyone interested in the class structure of modern Turkey, the development of Turkey's anti-revisionist movement, and the struggle for Kurdish self-determination. Of particular interest is the "Kurecik Regional Report" which is similar to Mao's "Hunan Report", a creative attempt to think through the specific class contradictions of modern Turkey. "The Theses of Shafak Revisionism Regarding the Kemalist Movement" is of historical importance, useful for those interested in Kemalism - a key ideology of the Turkish ruling classes - and the ways in which the communist movement, before the revolutionary break of which Kaypakkaya was part, were unable to break from national chauvinism. Perhaps the most important essay in this collection, however, is "The National Question in Turkey", the first Marxist treatment of the Kurdish Question that thoroughly argued for the right of national self-determination in regards to Kurdistan. Writ

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