Masoud Ahmadzadeh

{{Short description|Iranian Marxist political theorist}}

{{Infobox philosopher

||region = Theoretician (Marxism)

|caption = Masoud Ahmadzadeh

|name = Masoud Ahmadzadeh

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|10|14|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Mashhad, Iran

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|03|02|1945|3|2|df=yes}}

|death_place = Tehran, Iran

|nationality = Iranian

|alma_mater = University of Tehran

|main_interests = Small Engine Diffusion, Modernity, Marxism, Communism

|notable_ideas = praxis as a revolutionary methodology, Ahmadzadeh, Masoud, [https://www.marxists.org/subject/iran/ahmad-zadeh/armed-struggle.pdf "Ahmadzadeh, Masoud"] in Marxism-marxists.org.

|influences = Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Régis Debray, Fidel Castro, Ehsan Tabari, Taher Ahmadzadeh, Benjamin

|influenced = Hamid Ashraf, Amir Parviz Pooyan, Mostafa Shoa'ian, Ashraf Dehghani

}}

Masoud Ahmadzadeh Heravi{{cite web|author=Torāb Ḥaqšenās (Iranica Columbia University)|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/communism-iii |title=COMMUNISM iii. In Persia after 1953 Encyclopedia|publisher=iranicaonline.org|accessdate=28 November 2015}} (2 March 1945 – 4 December 1972) was an Iranian Marxist political theorist. Though often described as a Revolutionary Communist, his work mostly dealt with the grounds that Struggle is concerned with 'Strategy' and 'Tactics'. His work centered on the idea that the “defeat of capitalism and comprador capitalism” is possible by “armed struggle both as a strategy and a tactic".Ahmadzadeh, Masoud. Armed Struggle; both a Strategy and a Tactic. 1st ed. Tehran: Fadaian Publishing, 1970. He left Mashhad in 1964 and he went to Tehran and studied Mathematics at the University of Tehran. His works deal with politics, the nature of comprador capitalism, guerrilla warfare, monarchy, and dictatorship.{{cite web|author=Torāb Ḥaqšenās (Iranica Columbia University)|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/communism-iii |title=COMMUNISM iii. In Persia after 1953 Encyclopedia|publisher=iranicaonline.org|accessdate=28 November 2015}}

He was executed at the Chitgar shooting range for his military activities against the regime.{{cite web|author=Torāb Ḥaqšenās (Iranica Columbia University)|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/communism-iii |title=COMMUNISM iii. In Persia after 1953 Encyclopedia|publisher=iranicaonline.org|accessdate=28 November 2015}}