Marx, Colonialism and the Market

Nirmal Kumar Chandra DESPlTE the collapse of the USSR, Marxism remains to this day the only ideology that galvanises countless men and women cutting across the boundaries of nation, race, religion, caste, and even social class or stratum, All other ideologies operate within a narrower space. In popularity, religious fundamenta- lism may outshine Marxism in many parts of the world; hut by its very nature it lacks a universal appeal. And contemporary liberalism, the only rival to Marxism on an international scale, neither has nor needs a mass following.