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The Roots of Emerging Dual Class Structure in Nineteenth-Century Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Ahmad Ashraf
Ahmad Ashraf*
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University of Tehran
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The social formation of Iran in the nineteenth century was marked by the predominance of a precapitalist mode of production that had lasted for centuries. A semicolonial situation, superimposed upon Iranian society by the rival colonial powers in the latter half of the nineteenth century, however, set the stage for the beginnings of “modernization” along the lines of dependent capitalism. The result was an uneven and flawed development of capitalism, leading to the emergence and growth of a dual societal type in Iran.

The dualistic character of any social formation in the transitional stage toward capitalism is attributed to the coexistence of several forms of precapitalist, as well as capitalist, modes of production.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 1-2 , Spring Winter 1981 , pp. 5 - 27
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1981

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