of the sins of khalil maleki: a political economy of a unique phenomenon

Khalil maleki was a unique phenomenon in the politics of twentieth-century iran. once in an article, i described him as ‘the odd intellectual out’, and in another, i wrote about his ‘strange politics’. while he was a committed socialist, unlike most other political forces he believed in dialogue and peaceful political activity, which virtually made him a target for political smear campaigns, although this did not save him from being put on military trial and imprisoned by the shah’s regime!  these attributes summarise some of what i call his sins but there are more, and they all deserve to be mentioned briefly in this paper. by using a political economy approach, this article investigates the issue in question.