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| | M.N. Dhalla: History of Zoroastrianism (1938), part 5 |
 | | Mazdak agreed with the fundamental doctrine of Zoroastrianism in respect to the indelible antithesis between the two principles, Light and Darkness, or Ohrmazd and |
 | | Mazdak's revolutionary reform, however, was not so much religious as it was social and economic, for he preached communism, pure and simple. |
 | | Mazdak did not live long to preach his doctrine, for the prince arranged a banquet for him and his followers and put them all to the sword in A.D. Tabari, tr. |
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