Comparison of Political Competition in Religious Democratic System and Humanist Schools Based on Imam Khomeini's Worldview

Analysts have always had a one-dimensional in examining the roots of the correct model of political competition in the view of Imam Khomeini and focused most of their activities on the Imam's guidelines in the field of reminding the people and elites of their duties in the field of political and electoral competition. However, the present article deals with the shaping factors of political competition in Imam's thought, originating from religious democracy and against the two ideologies of perspective fascism and conservatism.
The main method of the current research is qualitative and its approach is analytical.
By delving into Imam Khomeini's thought after the victory of the revolution, social forces (in the form of the material system), ideological foundations (in the form of the ideological system) and political institutions (in the form of the institutional system) are the basis of a healthy political competition.
Within the framework of the material system, he always reminded the people and political elites of their duties in the field of political competition. This system keeps political competition away from fragmentation (fascism) and the society from being affected by the culture industry (liberal conservatism). Also, in the form of an ideological system, they attempted to match the foundations of political competition within the framework of Islamic teachings, whose function is to avoid radicalism and opposition to maintaining the status quo (fascism). And within the framework of the institutional system, while establishing political institutions to create and monitor political competition, he started to institutionalize political behavior, which leads to the observance of citizen rights and increasing the functions of the Islamic government (religious democracy) in the form of a healthy political competition.