[quote=@Letter Bee] What about Rojava IRL? Edit: Or is Democratic Confederalism sufficiently different from Syndicalism? I seem to recall Rojava having a federal structure elected from bottom-up... [/quote] Rojava's in open revolution. If not to simply maintain its territories against enemies at open war with it then its goals is to at least turn Syria 180 degrees from Assad. But it's only got two real options, it's not like it's going to invade Turkey. Hell, if anything it'll leave the Turkish Kurds to their own decisions once the PKK members serving in Rojava now go home with more battle experience and a rallying cry for their own communities; assuming Rojava survives. But in cases like the Ukrainian Free Territory, Revolutionary Catalonia, or even the EZLN the name of the game isn't so much to exert ideological power against someone else but to protect what they got from someone else. Historically speaking, the primitive socialism practiced by much of the world before feudalism or even modern capitalism wasn't as organized as the feudal monarch or the corporation to go on the offensive. From a tankie perspective, this is why figures like Lenin are good because they embody enough state centralization to organize resources to go on the counter offensive, where as figures like Makhno may be looked at as the romantic cause that got lost; incapable of seizing extra-territorial power due to the decentralized nature of the commune.