
The Dig: Iran, 1953-1979. From the Shah to Islamic Revolution
Jacobin Radio
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Various Trends and Tendencies Within the Marxist Fadayon
There are all of these different trends and tendencies that are percolating and circulating in the 1970s among students among revolutionaries. There is a move towards revolutionary marxism le- Leninism as the major sort of broad trend among both students outside of the country but among students in the country. And then also this this shariatean new sheism uh revolutionary sheism and shariate is very keen on saying that this is not a rethinking of sheism but in fact it is the reactionary quietest apolitical members of the clergy who have sort of wrestled the true meaning of islam away from its orientation towards social justice and towards equality. All of this could have happened without
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