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That must have been a very exciting few months!

• eternalban 5y ago
  The excitement was in the previous winter. It was a very strange time with strange scenes. For example, seeing children of avowed Marxists in the school yard shouting for Khomeini, etc., and then streets full of wild eyed occupants of cars buzzing through the streets waving handguns out the window. Of course now, in hindsight and having seen multiple color revolutions deployed and broadcasted via media the Iranian revolution of '78-79 is no longer such a cryptic event, in my mind. It is interesting in fact, in context of Marx and his theoretical views on the 'mechanics of history' to note the role of psychology, specifically group psychology, in the possibly choreographed unfolding of human events. This is possibly a dimension that he overlooked.