Shola-e Javid

Shola-e Javid
Shola-e Javid
Ideology	Maoism
Political position	Far-left
Colors	Red Yellow
	Politics of Afghanistan; Political parties; Elections;

Shola-e Javid (Dari: شعلهٔ جاوید, lit. 'Eternal flame') was a Maoist political party founded around 1964 in the Kingdom of Afghanistan. Its strategy was populist, gaining support from university students, professionals, the majority Pashtuns and the Shia Hazaras.^[1] It grew significantly in popularity throughout the late 1960s and into the 1970s, possibly eclipsing that of the Parcham and Khalq factions of the pro-Soviet People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) up until the factions' reconciliation in 1977. The Shola-e Javid party was made illegal in 1969 after criticizing King Zahir Shah.

After the exile of the King to Italy and President Daoud Khan's takeover of Afghanistan in the 1973 coup, Shola-e Javid continued to be condemned as a Pakistani-backed movement hostile to the ruling regime. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Sino-Albanian split caused splits within the Shola-e Javid party, with one section denouncing the pro-Chinese stance in favor of a pro-Albanian one in 1978, condemning Mao's Three Worlds Theory as revisionist.^[2]

References[]

^ Arnold, Anthony. Afghanistan's Two-Party Communism: Parcham and Khalq. 1st ed. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1983.
^ Alexander, Robert. International Maoism in the Developing World. 1st ed. London: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.

External links[]

Official website

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[1] Arnold, Anthony. Afghanistan's Two-Party Communism: Parcham and Khalq. 1st ed. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1983.

[2] Alexander, Robert. International Maoism in the Developing World. 1st ed. London: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.

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