Chapter Eight of the book
“Destructive Coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism: A New Reading of Contemporary Iran”
Chapter Eight of the book, “Destructive Coordination, Anfal, and Islamic Political Capitalism”, first examines the three basic institutions of Islamic political capitalism, including the Velayat-e-Faqih, Anfal, and destructive coordination (parallel institutions), to show that the prevailing economic situation in Iran after the revolution is neither a “surplus economy” in competitive capitalism nor a “scarcity economy” in classical Soviet-style socialism.
It is a “hoarding economy” based on the accumulation of foreign exchange and commodity assets. At the end of this chapter, the impact of the acquisition of public property by Anfal and the military management of natural resources by the Revolutionary Guards Corps on the environment and numerous ecological damages are examined.
