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.
It’s not best left forgotten, it’s shining example of what not to do not (granted leftist history has a lot of them, but that’s exactly why it should be remembered).