The Impact of Leftist on Political Movement of Eastern Kurdistan: Kurdistan Democratic Party as An Example 1970-1979 An Historical, Political Study

Abstract

One of the most effective ideologies in the twentieth century that had its hallmark on a lot of events and millions of people followed it, was the leftism ideology. For this reason, it became one of the most powerful sociopolitical thoughts of human society. The KDP’s third conference in 1971 was an important turning point in Kurdistan Democratic party’s (KDP) history because the left-wing thinkers succeeded and the right wing which had the power for ten years were marginalized. In this conference, the KDP got a concrete organization chart. The appropriate socioeconomic policy in this statute did echo leftism and the organizational chart was a copy of the Communist parties chart to create a socialist society as the final goal for the party was for the first time recorded in the KDP’s statute. The existence of Toudeh party sympathizers within the KDPI ranks and the activity of several Marxist-Leninist groups in Kurdistan (1979) and the occupation of USA’s embassy by the extremist students created even more radicalized political atmosphere in Kurdistan and these were reflected in KDPI’s fourth congress (1980) when it became a radical leftist party.

Keywords

• kdp
• leftism
• radicalism
• right wing
• toudeh party