Marx posed as the Mesiah to the downtrodden. He declared that communism will, in the words of the German poet Lessing, “blotch(es) up the loopholes in the structures of the world.” There will be one world, one flag, one humanity, and one ideology. Being carried away by the charisma of Lenin and Stalin, the downtrodden conquered about one-third of the world to be governed from Moscow. The hammer, sickle and star embossed red flag fluttered in the sky. The whole bourgeois world trembled. But very soon the hammer fell on the head of Trotsky and soon the teeth of the sickle got rusted and lastly the star fell to the ground like a burnt up meteor. Why did the people get attracted to communism? How did communism temporarily succeed in conquering a part of the world? What did the people get from communism? Why one communism broke up into many ‘communisms’? Why did communism fall? And, lastly, what political garb the world may wear in the near future?
These are the questions the author tries to answer here.

Dr. S.K. Sarker holds Ph.D. in English as well as in Philosophy. At present he is a Reader in Raiganj (University) College. He has published about a dozen articles (five of which are on communism) in journals of international repute. He has to his credit four published books.

• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
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• Publication Date: April 22, 1994
• Pages: 172
• ISBN13: 9788171565153
• Item Weight: 160 grams
• Original Price: 250.0 INR
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• Binding: Hardcover