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Was Iran the birth place of socialism?
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    Posted: 09-Jan-2005 at 16:40



About this time the leadership of the sect passed to Mazdak son of Baamdaad, a man of charisma and revolutionary temper, deeply committed to the notion of social justice and the welfare of the poor. Under his leadership the movement assumed a pronounced social coloring. Capitalizing on popular discontent, Mazdak questioned the enormous privileges of the noble classes and the clergy. He not only envisaged an egalitarian society, but as a man of action also planned to carry out his communistic ideas
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This is the first record of it, the Zaroastrian clergy ordered the massacre of 100,000 Mazdaks.
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Nuh,Sparta was....
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
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This was an element that challenged the elitist Zaroastrian clergy ideologically and wanted equality for the poor and the lower classes. 

Can you explain your Sparta by "Sparta was"? from my knowledge they had an elitist society.



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I am joking.....that's why the .
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Interestingly Mazdak's communistic ideology got very extreme. Some say that he eventually believed in sharing of everything including women

 
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That IS just a LITTLE extreme.
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