Mostafa Sho‘aiyan
The Maverick Theorist of Revolution and the Failure of Frontal Politics in Iran
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9978409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peyman Vahabzadeh (University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 405-425 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210860701390596 |
| OpenAlex | W2025529165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Based on the author's original research, the paper will offer a glimpse into the frontal theory of Mostafa Sho‘aiyan. The paper draws on his life and experience of the National Front in the 1950s as a model for political thought. Next, the paper will show how he tried, through his unique and uncanonical revolutionary theory, to make a revolutionary praxis compatible with frontal thinking. Analytically, Sho‘aiyan's work proves that an ideologically driven concept of national liberation becomes an impediment for frontal politics in a truly democratic way. Sho‘aiyan's works represent a theoretical and existential response to the national liberation dilemma which the Iranian Marxists faced in the 1960s and 70s
Dilemma · Epistemology · Existentialism · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |