The revolution's impact was merely to reverse the increase in inequality that occurred in the late 1970s. Apparently, overall inequality in Iran has not been only resilient to policy changes but also to the revolution itself. A possible lesson from this observation is that, unlike poverty, inequality is more structural and therefore more resilient; a social revolution could not affect it, much less incremental policy. There is no doubt that the Revolution displaced many from their place on the economic ladder, sometimes violently, but perhaps because the economic ladder on which individuals must in the end find their place remained the same, the distribution did not change. Different people stand on the higher rungs of the ladder but the ladder itself has changed little. ************************************************
In the way I define social revolution i.e. the abolition of the wages system, inequality of political power and with that, massive differences in the ability to tap in to the wealth created by the assoicated producers, would have been obliterated. Iran underwent a political revolution, where a monarchist ruling class running capitalist social relations was replaced by a theocratic ruling class running capitalist social relations.
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