Writer; Saeed Amani
Translate from Kurdish; Roman Mireki
What is a revolution? a revolution is a fundamental change, a major change in the life of society. Revolution in sociology means the collapse of an old and failed social system and its replacement by a new and more credible social system.
For example, the Great French Revolution, which took place nearly two hundred years ago, was a bourgeois revolution. He destroyed the old feudal system symbolized by the Burponian monarchy, and replaced it with a new, more advanced capitalist system.
The Great Russian Revolution of October 1917 was a great social revolution because it took history to a different level by uprooting the old feudal and capitalist systems and building a new socialist society, which is the biggest change in human history. The revolution overthrows one ruling class and brings to power another that represents the more advanced relation of production. It can be said that the revolution will replace the previous type of government with a new and more credible type of government.
The fundamental issue in any revolution is the issue of state political power. The seizure of power from the outdated ruling class by the class or leading class is one of the basic symbols of any revolution. Revolution is the greatest form of class struggle, and it is the progressive classes that create the deepest and most fundamental changes in the economic, ideological and political fields and completely change its face through revolution.
There are also many types of revolutions, including bourgeois revolutions, bourgeois democratic revolutions, socialist revolutions, and so on.
To determine the type of social revolution, it is important to know what conflicts each revolution resolves, what social tasks it fulfils, what classes it removes from power, and what classes are at the forefront of the revolution.
For any revolution to succeed, the objective conditions (revolutionary conditions) and the intellectual conditions (the existence of a revolutionary organization) are necessary.
Revolution is a mass uprising to fundamentally change the current social system, not from the heroism of this or that particular individual, or this or that particular political group or party. The revolution of a society and a country in the first stage of the birth of objective conditions is social life.
Iranian society is now at such a stage. The situation of this society is a mixture of upheaval and revolution that has brought about some positive and fundamental changes in favour of workers, women, youth and other oppressed classes in the social life of this society.
