Mazdak and karl Marx Social Impressions

Author:
Jasem Alinezhadan Moarrefi
Level:
Master
Subject(s):
Non-Abrahamic religions
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Religions
Year:
2014
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Seyyed Saeed Reza Montazeri

Mazdak, the red and reformer man in Sasanian’s era in Qobad’s time (Sasanian’s King) arised against Feudal system, injustice in society of that time and greediness of rich class. Mazdak, supported by Qobad king, used his thought systems which were based on Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism and succeded in some reforms and effects at Qobad’s time.his movment procedure became something that some people ignored his first principles and caused introductory digressions in his movement.This factor caused people to know him as a promotioner of wife common system, property and  propagator of  Commonist thought in Iran.The comparison of Mazdak and Marx(as father of communism) in one hand and the comparison of Mazdak and plato(as the founder of common society) in the other hand show that mazdak’s thought principles neither resemble to Marx’s commonist thought nor plato’s common thoughts.Although we can find some similarities among Mazdak’s idealogy, Marx Utopia, and Plato’s Utopia but his way to his desired society is very different from Marx’s and Plato’s. What can’t be denied is that there are some similarities between Mazdak’s and Marx’s beliefs. But it doesn’t necessarily show show the dependence and deep thought connection between them.the studies of the effects Mazdak and Marx on societies and their thought policies (in their living time or after their death) shows that there were distortions in their thought principles which led to creation of diverse sects which were  more or less far from their original thoughts. Existence of some primary principles of Mazdak and Marx and their improvement along time was the t main cause of creation of many sects like khoramieh  and Leninism. The sects that although don’t use of their primary principles thought, they are not ineffective of them.