Why did leftists in Iran support Khomeini during the revolution of '79? Many of those leftists that supported him he ended up killing 10 years later (with the help of the CIA).
Why did leftists in Iran support Khomeini during the revolution of '79...
Jayden Martin
Cameron Jones
It was actually only 3 years later that Khomeini purged leftists with a list of names provided to him by the CIA.
Ayden Jackson
I don't know much about it, but I would imagine they preferred Khomeini to whatever CIA backed shill that was in power at the time.
Asher Martin
Maybe. But I think the revolution should serve as a lesson that leftists should never ally with reactionaries under any circumstances.
Ethan Rivera
Agreed
Jose Turner
united fronts with the bourgeoisie have always lead to the demise of the communist movement.
Caleb Williams
Source on this? Are you user from the other day that claims that behind the scenes the US and Iran are working together?
Adrian Garcia
Not that user, and no I doubt Iran and US are secretly working together still.
en.wikipedia.org
Gabriel Martin
I'd never heard of this before. Thanks.
Brandon Campbell
Khomeini didn't have a reactionary role at first, he was an exiled reference, similar to deceased Ali Shari'ati who was the other popular figure and whose name was often heard during demonstrations. Shari'ati called for a Marxist Islam and his speeches were widely circulating on cassettes among Iranians before the revolution. merip.org
But Khomeini was essential for the revolution to happen as well, at a crucial moment he sent a message to Iranians not to accept any compromises, elections, constitutional reforms, etc., and to continue with the resistance. Shi'i Islam wasn't the problem at all, it was actually the essential part, as it was then already a very political and activist religion where clergy couldn't afford to act against the will of the people. But I think people believed too blindly in Khomeini. He should have stayed in exile and remained an idealized revolutionary figure, instead he decided to actualize his power.
Thomas Ortiz
Israel, our greatest ally.
Noah Howard
The Hibernian Occupied Government of Israel is truly tragic. Mick perfidy truly knows no lows.
Jace Hall
What does Holla Forums mean by this?
James Carter
it should probably be noted that most socialists and communists in Iran joined with the Ayatollah when the revolution first started until he started turning against everyone who wasn't a hardcore islamist.
Blame the Shah for fucking up the country so badly that even a theocracy looks preferable.
Isaac Williams
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Parker Davis
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Juan Perry
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Charles Price
They didn't. Read Persepolis for a leftist perspective on the revolution. The protests weren't by islamists, but also by leftists etc etc
Easton Rogers
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John Torres
Not an argument.
James Sanchez
Iranian revolution is a great example for leftists. We should never work with Islamists/Moderate muslims.
Also fuck religions, especially Islam.
Easton Hill
This, Muslims are worse than the bourgouise in that they want a return to feudalism
Charles Fisher
How's Persepolis pretentious? It's basically an autobiography with very little commentary. At least the book, don't remember well the movie but they probably shitted it up a bit.
Nolan White
hurr your life story is so pretentious art fag
Benjamin Gonzalez
He was anti American so that's good
Hudson King
Shariati wasn't much of a Marxist from what i gathered in a short talk i had with a Tudeh member a few months ago. For him Islam should be in the center of politics. His philosophy tried to make Shia Islam to be more for social justice but it seems to be a bit of a stretch to call him a Marxist, especially since he wrote a book criticizing Marxism
Connor Perez
her "story" is a bunch of meandering bullshit where she acts like a tremendous self absorbed cunt
she mentions off hand how members of her family were actually resisting the shah etc but talks about herself instead which is a bunch of nothing
top it off where she was wearing lipstick in public and claimed a man harassed her to throw the morality police off her, laughs about it, then only feels kind of bad when her grandmother tells her she's a shit for getting a man imprisoned, beaten, possibly killed, just because she wanted to LIVE LIFE ON THE EDGGGGGE by wearing makeup
but no, you're right, her personal story truly is an epic necessitating print in two volumes that can basically be summed up by "my middle-class life was pretty comfortable despite all the awful shit happening around me, and despite my incredibly muh privileged lifestyle where I was even sent to live in europe on my own I never appreciated any of it, learned anything, or even grew as a person, while thousands were brutalized all around me by authoritarianism"
Connor Moore
Khomeini was pro-abortion and somehow bent Islamic law to allow for sex reassignment surgeries. He was a successor to Ali Shariati, a PhD in sociology who spoke about class war.
Xavier Peterson
She's a feminist, right? Sounds like your averange feminist
Adrian Kelly
See Inside Story The Road to Terror by Adam Curtis on Youtube. Interviews with particapants and shows similarities with the 1789 French revolution.
John Young
tbh the socialists/commies in Iran got what they deserved .
Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to violently support an Islamic theocracy wishing to return to Feudalism.
They were millions of people in Iran that hated the shah and western interventionism but wanted a western-style representative democracy but got fucked by fnatics.