forth issue of Medusa 1- Inauguration of a new era in Iran's capitalism: Formation of a new model of capital accumulation by Farid Saberi Abstract: I have argued that Iran's capitalism has a monopolistic structure and one should analyze its function accordingly. In this context, I have argued that the historical realities like "chronic stagflation", "falling rate of profit", "economic and political dismantling of the middle class" and "new emerging way of worker's struggle" are all signs of the beginning of a new era in the development of Iran's capitalism and formation of a new model of capital accumulation. The concept of the "model of capital accumulation" inspired by Karl Marx's methodology in Capital is introduced here to grasp the net of political and ideological relation among different classes, which reproduce and maintain the distribution of agential and institutional power among social classes. In the s...
