Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Narahari Kaviraj

Abstract

AT Once a Humanist and an internationalist Karl Marx set before himself the ideal of the liberation of mankind. But a realist that he was, he did not consider the people of the world as one undifferentiated mass. He grouped the countries of the world into two categories-the oppressing countries and the oppressed countries or, alternatively, the metropolitan countries and the colonies. For the oppressing countries (where capitalism had become dominant and where the bourgeoisie were at the helm of power) he advocated the proletarian revolution. For the colonies he pleaded for the struggle for national liberation from foreign domination.

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