Saydal Sokhandan was an Afghan poet, a

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

activist, and a student leader. He was studying at the

Kabul University Kabul University (KU; prs, دانشگاه کابل, translit= Dāneshgāh-e-Kābul; ps, د کابل پوهنتون, translit=Da Kābul Pohantūn) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd ...

in the early-1970s. He organized students from

Progressive Youth Organization Progressive Youth Organization ( fa, سازمانی جوانانی مترقی, ''Sazman-e Javanan-e Mutarraqi'') was an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist organization in Afghanistan. The organization emerged from the New Democratic Current (''Jer ...

in the university. PYO is considered the first revolutionary

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a ...

formation in Afghanistan with Maoist ideology.

Poetry

Saydal Sokhandan has many poems in the

Pashto language Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languag ...

. One of his poems is: په ټوپک او په برچه دی استعمار پاره پاره کړه
شابه شابه ای کارګره خپل ایمان غیرت ښکاره کړه Translation: ''Tear apart colonialism with your gun and knife''
''Bravo Bravo Workers show your faith and determination''

References

Afghan communists 20th-century Afghan poets Pashtun people Maoists 1972 deaths Year of birth missing Maoism in Afghanistan {{Afghanistan-poet-stub