User blog comment:Centrist16/SOMETHING EVERYONE MUST KNOW/@comment-3398633-20150809140026/@comment-1045231-20150813192924

Rojava is democratic confederalist, a form of socialism. I guess I can concede that Leninism (and similar forms of socialism) can cause death and misery. But there are plenty of other models, and I don't like to defend Leninism, as I think it's seriously flawed and undemocratic. Even if your examples are socialist, I'm not trying to defend that form of socialism. On Yugoslavia, even if that's correct, the capitalist world also went through many problems. And they were a flawed form of socialism due to authoritarian tendencies. Companies like Mondragon, and cooperatives in Yugoslavia, could function the same under market socialism. Zapatistas are harassed by the Mexican government and other organizations. List of famous educated and/or skilled socialists: Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Helen Keller, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela (well, I don't know how educated he is, but he's a good example).