Writing Capitalism into Iran through the International. Issue 2 (April 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Matin, Kamran
• Is Part Of: Iranian studies. Volume 56:Issue 2(2023)
• Page Start: 399
• Page End: 402
• Publication Date: 2023-04
• Subjects: Iran -- Periodicals; 955
• DOI: 10.1017/irn.2023.6
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0021-0862

Abstract

Abstract : "Writing capitalism into Iran" arguably requires addressing a prior theoretical question regarding the origins and development of capitalism. This is because many of the existing analyses of Iran's experience of capitalist modernity tend to uncritically deploy classical Marxist theories of capitalist development. This literature's analytical problems, especially its recurrent recourse to exceptionalism, cannot be solved at the empirical or analytical level but rather at its intellectual roots in classical Marxism (see Samiee in this roundtable forum). This observation has been central to my research program. What follows is an extremely condensed genealogy of this research program and some of its analytical implications for Iranian studies.