The Left, Democracy, and Authoritarianism
This book is a narrative of the left’s efforts in the struggle for social justice, freedom, and democracy. The first part discusses the theoretical foundations of the left and its relationship with democracy. The second part dives into the evolutionary process of the left in the global arena from the time of Marx to the 1990s with three different tendencies.
The third part briefly reviews the ideological developments of the new left in the years after 1980 and depicts what the left did in political practice (when they were in power in South America). In the final part, the left in Iran, from the constitutional era to the present day, is the subject of study.
