Marxism and Islamism

 

Red Guards and Green Guards: two cultural revolutions, the same revolutionary logic.

Both created theocratic systems—one built on Marxism, the other on Islamism.

Both claimed to be creating a “new society.” And both followed the same playbook:

• Destroy traditional culture – Mao sought to smash China’s “Four Olds.” Iran’s Islamists sought to erase Western and pre-Islamic heritage, targeting statues, tombs, and books.


• Rewrite history – the past had to be reshaped to legitimize the new revolutionary order.


• Take over the education system – universities were shut down for years and later reopened only after ideological screening and the purging of professors and students.


• Purge intellectuals – academics, writers, and dissenting thinkers were expelled, imprisoned, or silenced to enforce ideological conformity.


• Indoctrinate the population – education and literacy campaigns were used not simply to teach, but to spread revolutionary ideology.