Mansoor Hekmat

Mansoor Hekmat (original name Zhoobin Razani; born 1951 in Tehran, † 4 July 2002 in London) was an Iranian Marxist and leader of the communist workers' movement. He is the founder of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI ), which is opposed to the Islamic Republic.

Life

Mansoor Hekmat graduated from the University of Shiraz Economics and continued his studies in London in 1973 continued. At this time Hekmat began to read Marx's Capital and other political works. He founded the Union of Communist fighter and later took part in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, on the high point of a founded Workers' and Soldiers ( shoras ). However, unlike most of the Iranian left, he refused loyalty to Islam and the Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. He spoke of the " myth of a progressive national bourgeoisie ".

His views forced him to flee in 1981 into Iranian Kurdistan. His Union Marxist fighters joined forces with the Kurdish group Komalah that had Maoist roots. Together they formed the Communist Party of Iran (CPI ). Hekmat left the CPI and founded in 1991 the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI ). Also build a similar organization in neighboring Iraq, the Worker-communist Party of Iraq, he was instrumental.

He died in 2002 in his London refuge from cancer.

Views

Hekmat campaigned for the " return to Marx " and saw the working class as on her own because she was the only class that have obtained major changes in the 20th century. The Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China, he said to be from socialist States and situate them as national- bourgeois systems that do not abolish value added and wage slavery and not socialized means of production.

Some of his views were influenced by the council communism; He laid emphasis on propaganda and internal organization on the grounds that " Communism on the margins of society is absolutely no communism." Hekmat investigated the revolutionary efforts with fights like the link for women's rights. Touched by the genocide in Rwanda and Yugoslav wars, he was considered representative of humanist visions.