The author is an ex-banker of a nationalized bank named Allahabad Bank, served as senior manager. He has been a keen student of history since his boyhood and took active interest in student movemen...view moreThe author is an ex-banker of a nationalized bank named Allahabad Bank, served as senior manager. He has been a keen student of history since his boyhood and took active interest in student movements during the turbulent period from 1971 to 1977. He also participated in trade union movements during his service days. He was attracted toward Marxism in his youth days and read a lot of Marxian as well as Marxist literature. He saw the collapse of the Soviet Union along with its East European Allies and drifting of Chinese polity toward market mechanism. This induced him to contemplate further about the veracity of Marxian theory and its implementation by the socialist world. This book is the outcome of his revised thinking.view less