Rezgar Akrawi
Iraqi Marxist politician
Rezgar Akrawi (Kurdish: ڕزگار ئاکراوی, romanized: Rizgār Akrāwī) is a Kurdish writer, author, and journalist. He was born in 1966 in Iraqi Kurdistan, in Akre city. He was one of the leading cadres in the Iraqi Communist Party from 1984 until 1990, after which he participated with the Communist Current Organization until 1992 before becoming one of the leaders of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq from 1993 until 2000. He was the first to introduce the concept of the electronic left. He was the winner of the Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2010 in the name of his website "Al-Hewar Al-Mutamaden – Modern discussion" in addition to being the coordinator of the Center for Studies and Research of Marxism and the Left. He has dozens of studies, research, and intellectual and political articles published in several Arab magazines such as Al-Hayat and Regai Kurdistan, in addition to his research published on the civilized dialogue website and in a large number of websites.
Electronic left
Introduction and name
Rezgar Akrawi put forward the concepts of the Electronic Left (E-Left) (Arabic: اليسار الإلكتروني) since the beginning of 2002 in various articles, dialogues and interviews. To be a modern, scientific, democratic concept of the left, its political speech, its organization, its work, its management and its leadership. To be compatible with the development technological, cognitive and human rights in various fields and the great change that has occurred in the mechanisms of dealing, interaction, organization and awareness of the masses due to the great technological and information revolution.
According to his description, capitalism develops itself over the course of a minute in all fields, and to replace it with more humane and fair systems, the left must be developed in thought and action in a very large way.
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