The History of an Idea: The People-Imperialism Contradiction

From the Strategy of the Revolutionary Left in the 1970s to a Tool of the “Resistance Axis” Left for Justifying the Existing Capitalist Order Yashar Darolshafa [1] This essay was originally published in Persian on 31 May 2026 on the Iranian Marxist website Naghd. The original Persian text is available here. Introduction: A Dispute over a Formulation, or a Dispute over the Meaning of the Left? In recent years, one of the most striking theor