POLITICAL ECONOMY OF lRAN, IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC'S PERIOD

From a "Political Economy" perspective, some major changes
in the Islamic Replublic Of Iran different from the nature and
content of the Islamic Revolution, have been occurred. These
changes, during four periods, from modernism to fundamentalism
and traditionalism in the sphere of culture and ideology, from
industrial capitalism and bourgeois orientation in economy to
commericial capitalism and non-bourgeois orientation, and in the
political sphere from liberal democracy and political pluralism to
populism and theocracy, have been formed. This essay trys to
explain the process of formation of intellectual trends in
association with economic tendencies and power blocks (the
relations of ideas to interests and political positions), and evaluate
the possibility or impossibility of the realization of development
and democracy in Iran.