Union of Community Militants (Iran)

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The Union of Community Militants was an Iranian Marxist organization founded in 1978 by Mansoor Hekmat and Hamid Taqvaee.

History

In 1978, Mansoor Hekmat and Hamid Taqvaee founded the Marxist Circle for Working Emancipation, which was based in Tehran. In November of that same year they published their Thesis on the Iranian revolution and the role of the proletariat, in which they characterized Iran as a dependent capitalist country within the imperialist system, where the majority of the population was salaried. Under these conditions, the Marxist Circle considered national independence and democracy for Iran within a capitalist order unviable.

Founding and Evolution

The Marxist Circle for Workers' Emancipation became one of the components of the Communist Party of Iran in 1983, when Mansoor Hekmat participated in its founding with the Committee of Revolutionary Workers of the Iranian Kurdistan (Komala).

Ideology

Using the tools of Marx's Capital, the founders analyzed Iran as a capitalist country dependent within the imperialist system. They argued that "bourgeois democracy" and national independence were impossible under these conditions, as they presupposed the existence of national capital. Instead, they believed that the proletariat must establish the republic and democracy, which would be directly anti-imperialist. To achieve this, the proletariat had to ensure its hegemony over other classes threatened by imperialism.

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