• Writing

    Capitalism as a Social System

    May 1, 2022 /

    I often say this to capitalist advocates; ‘there’s nothing wrong with capitalism except that everything in it is upside down’: the economics, the politics, the artistic and the cultural, the intellectual and the scientific life of this organism called Capitalism is irrational, is warped, is wrong. Economically, it is more than capable of producing beyond all the needs of humanity yet most of humanity is kept in dire straits, troubled, broken and driven into the abyss. And above all, under capitalism, human labour— the most vital, the most creative ability of human beings— has in large turned into uncreative, unsatisfying and meaningless activities. Politically, the affairs of society and the…

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  • Philosophy

    Philosophical Antagonism between Marxism and Religion

    April 24, 2022 /

    (With a look at The Organization of the Iranian People’s Mojahedin and its ideological developments in the first half of the 1970s) The founders of the Organization of the Iranian People’s Mojahedin (OIPM), as a symbol of the revolutionary petite-bourgeoisie in the democratic and anti-imperialist movement of our country, acknowledged the scientific-philosophical superiority of Marxism and its indisputable role in revolutionary practice in the contemporary world. And with that acknowledgement, they tried to amalgamate and arrange petite-bourgeois revolutionism with proletariat themes. The result was an eclectic philosophical doctrine that was committed to Islam while also interested in some aspects of Marxism. This, however, was neither coincidental nor was it limited…

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  • Writing

    Thought and Reality and Revolution in the Mirror of Poetry

    April 10, 2022 /

    Thought and Reality The ability to think and to form conceptual thoughts marked a point where the mind began to translate the real into the abstract. In its departure from this point, however, the mind flew from the ground of reality where it perceived itself independent of it, as if standing in its own right— thus began metaphysics.  It took millennia before the mind was finally able to break away from the world of metaphysics and its kingdom, and to return to its own origin upon which it was formed, i.e., the material world. And it was right at this historic juncture that the two realms— the realm of the…

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