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communal system, women are regard as communal property, in the
same way as all goods and objects, food and children. Since commu-
nist ideology is an unpopular one, particularly in the present day, they
do not openly talk about communal use of women. However, this is
the inevitable consequence of the elimination of the institution of the
family, and this is the actual objective. A concept of society in which
neither marriage nor the family have any meaning inevitably implies

the common use of women, children and material properties. In a
society in which everything is regarded as property to be enjoyed com-
munally, women will obviously have no unique "value".

2. Religion under the mask of imperialism

(Surely God and the Qur'an are beyond what stated below)

Perhaps the most important of the elements in the PKK's imperi-
alist mask is religion. Until the 1990s, the Leninist PKK entirely rejected
religion. After that, however, it began using religion as one of the most
important ways of concealing its communist identity. The key point
in making a good impression on Western states was to adopt a different
policy toward religion, to which communism is fiercely opposed. The
PKK began using a mask of religious devotion in a particularly effec-
tive manner after the 1990s.

Before turning to the details of this change, we need to understand
the PKK's basic attitude toward religion.

As we have reiterated several times, the PKK is a communist orga-
nization and communism appeared together with the ideology of
atheism, and all communist leaders have in fact engaged in atheist pro-

paganda. The communist state of the future must have abandoned the
concepts of religion, ethics and the family. Öcalan, who said, "What Lenin
st
was to socialism in 1900s, I am in the 21 Century", openly expressed his
ideas on the subject of religion prior to the 1990s, before he donned an
imperialist mask, in other words. Some perverse statements about reli-

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