Marxism and Left-Wing Politics in Europe and Iran

Yadullah Shahibzadeh is Author of The Iranian Political Language: From the late Nineteenth Century to the Present (2015), and Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran: An Intellectual History (2016).  Previously, he taught at the University of Oslo, Norway.

• 1. Chapter 1: Introduction.- 2. Chapter 2: From True Democracy to Communism.- 3. Chapter 3: The Vanguard Party and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.- 4. Chapter 4: The Crisis of Marxism: Ideology and Class-Consciousness.- 5. Chapter 5: Iran as Part of Global Communism.- 6. Chapter 6: Ideological Formation of the Stalinist Marxism in Iran and France.- 7. Chapter 7: The Crisis of Stalinism after 1953.- 8. Chapter 8: French Marxism: Ideology and the Question of power.- 9. Chapter 9: The New Left in Iran: A Discourse on Gun and Politics.- 10. Chapter 10: The Educator must be Educated.- 11. Chapter 11: From Communism to Democracy.- 12. Chapter 12: Toward a Communist Democracy.- 13. Chapter 13: Conclusion