History of the evolution of the concept of ideology in Iran after the revolution

Ideology Iran Revolution

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October 22, 2021

The concept of ideology in Iran, although it has a concise and unique history, but to some extent represents the general and contradictory meaning of ideology. In this article, I will focus on the history of the evolution of the concept of ideology in post-revolutionary Iran, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. By testing political experience in this geography, I will give a concrete answer to the question, what is ideology? What is its critique? In Iran, if we call the beginning of the 60's the decade of ideological debates, the beginning of the 70's can be considered the beginning of endless debates that were expressed under the critique of ideology, a period that can be referred to as "ideological de-ideology". Critics who themselves claimed to be ideological critics from an ideological context. In this historical context, I try to show how the seemingly different readings of state Islamism had the same ideological functions in eliminating Marxist currents and building the character of the Islamic Republic. In the sequence of the history of the establishment and consolidation of the Islamic Republic, what was presented at the beginning of the revolution as the "School of Islam or School Islam" to compete with Marxist currents appeared in the narrative of Islamist revisionists in the early 1970s under "ideological criticism." From the mid-seventies onwards, with the rise of the reformist current, the discourse of religious enlightenment overshadowed the intellectual and political climate of Iran. As a result of the dominance of this discourse, so far the emphasis has been mainly on the differences and not on the overlap of Islamist currents within the Islamic Republic. Drawing a topographic map of the ideological debates of post-revolutionary Islamist Islamists will show what role these tendencies played in building the ideological tail and apparatus of the state in Iran. The "quasi-antagonistic" controversy between Abdolkarim Soroush and Reza Davari Ardakani, known as the "Popper and Heidegger controversy", is a natural example of how the compass of both tendencies is to push back the Marxists and also to set the power in the direction of the apparatus. have been. In historical comparison, the events in Iran coincide with the beginning of the nineties and the transition from the world of Thatcherism-Reaganism to the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A new era formulated as the "post-ideological" world and the "victory of the Western camp and capitalism." Through this global calendar, I will return to Iran to find out why and how, following debates related to ideological criticism, the use of the concept of discourse or discourse became common in Iranian theory, and as a term that claimed invaluable judgment, contradictory tendencies. Put the left and the right together under the shelter of false tolerance.