Mansoor Hekmat

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Mansoor Hekmat (original name Zhoobin Razani ; * 1951 in Tehran , † July 4, 2002 in London ) was an Iranian Marxist and leader of the communist labor movement. He is the founder of the Workers' Communist Party of Iran (WPI), which opposes the Islamic Republic .

Life

Mansoor Hekmat studied economics at the University of Shiraz and continued his studies in London from 1973. At this time Hekmat began reading Marx's Capital and other political works. He founded the Union of Communist Fighters and later took part in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, at the height of which a workers 'and soldiers' council ( shoras ) was founded. Unlike most of the Iranian left, however, he refused allegiance to Islamism and the supreme legal scholar Ruhollah Khomeini . He spoke of the " myth of a progressive national bourgeoisie ".

His views forced him to flee to Iranian Kurdistan in 1981 . His Union of Marxist Fighters joined forces with the Kurdish group Komalah , which had Maoist roots. Together they formed the Communist Party of Iran (KPI). Hekmat left the CPI and founded the Workers Communist Party of Iran (WPI) in 1991 . He also helped set up a similar organization in neighboring Iraq , the Workers' Communist Party of Iraq .

He died in 2002 in his London refuge to cancer .

Views

Hekmat advocated a “ return to Marx ” and saw the working class as being on its own because it was the only class that had brought about major changes in the 20th century. He renounced the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China to be socialist states and identified them as national-bourgeois systems that did not abolish added value and wage slavery and did not socialize the means of production .

Some of his views were shaped by council communism ; he attached importance to propaganda and internal organization on the grounds that “ communism on the fringes of society is not communism at all ”. Hekmat tried to combine revolutionary efforts with struggles like that for women's rights . Affected by the genocide in Rwanda and the Yugoslav wars , he was seen as a representative of humanistic visions.

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SURNAME Hekmat, Mansoor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Razani, Zhoobin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian Marxist and leader of the communist labor movement
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2002
Place of death London