Sociologist Chahla Chafiq was a 25-year-old Marxist activist during the 1979 Iranian revolution. Now in exile in France, she looks back on the tensions between socialism, feminism, and anti-imperialism that have roiled Iran’s opposition politics for decades.
  • happyandhappy [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    a few interesting contradictions here

    1. between the left parties on the pro/anti soviet line
    2. between the national bourgeoisie and imperialist forces/compradors
    3. between liberal feminism/pink imperialism and the emancipation of women

    i think these three points are particularly notable in that the emphasis on them are going to become more and more exposed as US hegemony breaks down and capitalism escapes into the third world.

    we are already seeing the tension between these concepts in their modern form beginning to burgeon. the resolution of each of these contradictions also vastly differs based on your specific position within them ie people in the US have the monopoly capitalists (imperialists) as our principal enemy whereas people in Russia would have the Russian national bourgeoisie (non imperialist) as theirs.