that the latest one, when the latest one was triggered after Gina Amini was killed,

I think a lot of times because of the way that especially the DS for the United States

interprets it, it gets kind of blurred and mixed up.

But that's what I tried to do is all these uprisings in the last 15 years.

A lot of them have to do with austerity and neoliberalism as well as authoritarianism.

Right and and as you rightfully point out and you have a couple of great paragraphs about this,

gender depression, right? You could you could view it simply as like a cultural issue or civil liberties issue

you know the the dawning of the garb and the religious police but there is like a

deep political economic essence to gender depression as it ties to capitalist

accumulation very like the whole realm of social reproduction of society

the double shift you know that Iranian women are more and more taking on similar to women in the West

so to isolate it and say it's like merely gender doesn't do that does a great injustice to the to the to the totality.

Yeah definitely it's pointing you know a lot of times people including people

on the left it's very shocking to me that people who call themselves,

Marxist even, can't seem to fathom contradiction in a society.

Well that's why you're, you know, you spent all those years on critical theory and I think it's really

helped. I want to ask an important question now and this is a this is

going to tie into a lot of what we're talking about right now. You say in the

piece that there is an authentic revolutionary movement and culture that now exists in Iran.

And we've seen like the bubbling up of that as it comes to us in the Western media which you know there's a certain

valence on that what is the nature of this revolutionary movement that you're

talking about and is it primarily a bourgeois democratic one or is there some socialist content to it?

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