They're hardly "Marxism radicals". They're left libertarian since the international-kidnap-arrest of the supreme comrade who then very much mellowed out in the Turkish prison. They abandoned Marxism and picked up an ideology of a pretty obscure American whose name I don't even remember now.
Also foreign anarchists like to hang out with them but they're not anarchists themselves, they're into (federal) state making and organized parties (multiple in Syria and Iraq, in Turkey they have violently purged rival rebels in the 1980s when they actually were "radical").
It's similar to the (other) Kurdish parties in Iraq that still have politbiuros and maybe red stars in flags, but are no longer Marxist at all, for decades too. (Except the fringe Communist Party of Kurdistan.)
They're hardly "Marxism radicals". They're left libertarian since the international-kidnap-arrest of the supreme comrade who then very much mellowed out in the Turkish prison. They abandoned Marxism and picked up an ideology of a pretty obscure American whose name I don't even remember now.
Also foreign anarchists like to hang out with them but they're not anarchists themselves, they're into (federal) state making and organized parties (multiple in Syria and Iraq, in Turkey they have violently purged rival rebels in the 1980s when they actually were "radical").
It's similar to the (other) Kurdish parties in Iraq that still have politbiuros and maybe red stars in flags, but are no longer Marxist at all, for decades too. (Except the fringe Communist Party of Kurdistan.)