Mazdakism

Mazdakism was a Zoroastrian (Mazdayasnian) reform movement that is considered to have been founded by Mazdak, a mobad and Dorostdini, and which was active during the reign of Kavad I (488-531), the leadership of the movement being killed in 528-529 A.D. and the remaining movement persecuted, being considered extinct not long after. The essential tenets have been described as asceticism and primitive communism, the goal of the movement claimed to be the restoration of older, pure forms of Zoroastrianism, though it is suggested that the movement incorporated elements of Manichaeism into their praxis.