Shola-e Javid

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| name = Shola-e Javid

| native_name = شعلهٔ جاوید

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| colorcode = red

| foundation = 1964

| dissolution = 1969

| ideology = {{ubl|Communism|Marxism–Leninism|Maoism|Anti-revisionism}}

| position = Far-left

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| youth_wing = Progressive Youth Organization

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| country = Afghanistan

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Shola-e Javid ({{langx|prs|شعلهٔ جاوید|translit=Šoʿle-ye Jāvid|lit=The eternal flame}}) was an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party founded around 1964 in the Kingdom of Afghanistan. Its strategy was Maoist and populist, gaining support from university students, professionals, the majority Pashtuns and the Hazaras.Arnold, Anthony. Afghanistan's Two-Party Communism: Parcham and Khalq. 1st ed. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1983. Its popularity grew significantly 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 outlawed in 1969 after criticizing King Zahir Shah.