An Historical Interpretation of the Iranian Revolution

Fatemeh E Moghadam

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1988, vol. 12, issue 4, 401-18

Abstract: Applying the historical materialist methodology, this paper argues that the growing participation of Iran in the world market, which began in the nineteenth century, gave rise to the development of productive forces and disintegration of the historically persistent social relations: arbitrariness in property relations, communal formations, and despotism. The process, however, is not complete. Modern Iran is a society in transition. In a period of social transformation, contradictions become more apparent and social upheavals occur. The Islamic Revolution was one such upheaval. The massive scale of the revolution was due to the rapid development of productive forces accompanied with internal migration and rapid disintegration of communal social relations during the 1960s and 1970s. The Islamic character of the revolution was due to the specific property and communal relations. Copyright 1988 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1988
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