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The Iranian communist Sultanzade was one of the authors of the Theses on the National and Colonial Question in the Second Congress of the Third International, which declares the communist movements of the imperialist countries and the liberation movements of the dependent countries as equal allies of an anti-imperialist alliance. The theses remind the European communists that the people of the colonized and dependent countries cannot forget the collaboration of the leaders of the European proletariat with their bourgeoisie in the previous war for maintaining or gaining the rights of enslavement of the colonized and semi-colonized people. Sultanzade argues that because of their role in the production of the raw materials and consuming the end products in the process of global capitalist production and circulation, the colonized people are subjected to double exploitation, which makes them the truest proletarian nations.
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- 1.
Minutes of the Second Congress of the Communist International, Fifth Session July 28, https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/2nd-congress/ch05.htm.
- 2.
V.I. Lenin, Theses on national and colonial questions (Peking: Peking Foreign Language Press, 1967), p. 21.
- 3.
Ibid., pp. 22–23.
- 4.
Ibid., pp. 23–24.
- 5.
Ibid., pp. 25–26.
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Ibid., p. 26.
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Lenin, Theses on national and colonial questions, p. 27.
- 8.
Ibid., pp. 28–29.
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Babak Amir Khosravi va Fereydoun Azarnur, Khaterat-e siyasi-ye Iraj Eskandari, Bakhsh-e Chaharom (Nashr-e Jonbesh-e Tudehiha-ye Enfesali, 1987), p. 118.
- 10.
Ibid., pp. 126–127.
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Khosrow Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Avval (Florence: Mazdak, 1974), pp. 12–13.
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Ali Zibayi, Komonizm dar Iran ya tarikh-e mokhtasar-e komonistha dar Iran (Tehran: 1964), pp. 131–142.
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Cosroe Shaqueri (Khosrow Shakeri), Avetis Sultanzade : The Forgotten Revolutionary Theoretician (Life and Work) in History of Iranian Workers Movement (6) (Florence: Mazdak, 1985), p. 73.
- 14.
Ibid., p. 74.
- 15.
Minutes of the Second Congress of the Communist International, Fifth Session July 28, 1920.
- 16.
Khosrow Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Dovvom, Asar-e Avetis Sultanzade (Place of publication unknown, 1986), pp. 13–14.
- 17.
Ibid., p. 21.
- 18.
Ibid., pp. 15–19.
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Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Dovvom, Asar-e Avetis Sultanzade, pp. 21–22.
- 20.
Ibid., p. 27.
- 21.
Ibid., pp. 34–40.
- 22.
Ibid., pp. 40–41.
- 23.
Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Dovvom, Asar-e Avetis Sultanzade, p. 42.
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Ibid., pp. 44–46.
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Ibid., p. 47.
- 26.
Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Dovvom, Asar-e Avetis Sultanzade, p. 63.
- 27.
Ibid., pp. 75–76.
- 28.
Ibid., p. 76.
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Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Dovvom, Asar-e Avetis Sultanzade, p. 79.
- 30.
Ibid., pp. 80–81.
- 31.
Ibid., pp. 82–83.
- 32.
Ibid., p. 84.
- 33.
Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Dovvom, Asar-e Avetis Sultanzade, p. 100.
- 34.
Ibid., pp. 100–101.
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Ibid., p. 152.
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Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Dovvom, Asar-e Avetis Sultanzade, p. 154.
- 37.
Ibid., p. 155.
- 38.
Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Dovvom, Asar-e Avetis Sultanzade, pp. 156–158.
- 39.
Ibid., pp. 165–168.
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Ibid., pp. 170–171.
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Ibid., pp. 172–173.
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Shakeri, Asnad-e tarikhi-ye jonbesh-e kargari, sosial-demokrasi va komonisti-ye Iran, Jeld-e Dovvom, Asar-e Avetis Sultanzade, pp. 174–175.
- 43.
Ibid., p. 177.
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Ibid., p. 192.
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Ardeshir Ovanaessian, Safahati chand az jonbesh-e kargari-komonisti-ye Iran dar douran-e avval-e saltanat-e Reza Shah (1922–1933) (Tehran: Entesharat-e Hezb-e Tudeh Iran, 1979), p. 8.
- 46.
Ibid., p. 11.
- 47.
Ibid., pp. 12–13.
- 48.
Ovanaessian, Safahati chand az jonbesh-e kargari-komonisti-ye Iran dar douran-e avval-e saltanat-e Reza Shah (1922–1933), pp. 16–17.
- 49.
Ibid., p. 18.
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Ibid., p. 51.
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Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, Goteman-e Chap dar Iran: doureh-ye Qajar va Pahlavi-ye avval (Tehran: Entesharat-e Qoqnos, 2017), p. 238.
- 52.
Ovanaessian, Safahati chand az jonbesh-e kargari-komonisti-ye Iran dar douran-e avval-e saltanat-e Reza Shah, p. 57.
- 53.
Ibid., pp. 61–63.
- 54.
Ibid., pp. 63–64.
- 55.
Ibid., p. 115.
- 56.
Ovanaessian, Safahati chand az jonbesh-e kargari-komonisti-ye Iran dar douran-e avval-e saltanat-e Reza Shah, p. 136.
- 57.
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Short Course (New York: International Publishers, 1939), pp. 341–343.
- 58.
Ibid., pp. 343–344.
- 59.
Ibid., p. 345.
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William S. Lewis, Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism (London: Lexington Books, 2005), p. 23.
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Shahibzadeh, Y. (2019). Iran as Part of Global Communism. In: Marxism and Left-Wing Politics in Europe and Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92522-6_5
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