They are severely communist. I suppose there are more important things than that when you're fighting though.
I have real trouble believing that Kurdish even exist as a real people any longer. It's true they do appear to love America--no matter how many times it uses the Kurds as some kind of militarized probing stick to steal swaths of other country's land, and then have their asses forcefully knocked back off of it after the US withdraws, no longer needing whatever bases or weapons caches were on it. They just leave the Kurds there high and dry.
Shit keeps happening too, and the Kurds keep taking it. What kind of legitimate people respect themselves, or their families so little. I think they are a proxy force at this point, and not too much more. Fringe fighters--even their girls are mad tough, and fight along side the males, or sometimes they splinter off into their own groups to set mines, etc.
I'd like to know more about the modern Kurd.
The Kurds do follow a basically Communist ideology, but I wouldn't call them severely Communist.
Stalinist regimes such as North Korea, The Cambodian Khmer Rouge, and China prior to their adoption of a free market economy in the 1990s are what I would call severely Communist.