2019 Volume 4 Issue 2 Supplementary
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WATER SYSTEM AND HYDRAULIC STATE (ORIENTAL DESPOTISM) IN IRAN


Sayyed Sasan MOUSAVI GHAEMI1, Abbas GHADIMI GHEYDARI2*, Lili NAZARI KHANMIRI3
Abstract

Pushed through the discourse of the mode of production and some of Marx's scattered manuscripts, some European intellectuals have, over the past few decades, brought about the two theses of and the link between "Asiatic mode of production" and "Oriental Despotism." In the same years, some Iranian intellectuals have mapped out these two theses and introduced it in Iran by writing a few books and articles. The purpose of this research is to study the Asiatic mode of production and oriental despotism. The main message of the Asiatic mode of Production Thesis is to say that the historical process of evolution of the system of feudalism in Iranian society and a large part of the East is not the same as what has happened in Europe. Such a view, of course, does not change anything in the past, it does not add to Europe's pride, nor does it reduce anything from Iran and the East.


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