ABSTRACT
In a perceptive article written quite recently, Andre Beteille has examined the prospects of a so-called stateless society in the wake of liberalisation and globalisation. As early as 1998, in an article The Communist Manifesto: Globalisations, Nation-State and Class Struggle, Prakash Karat explained how Marx had already anticipated as early as 1848 the phenomenon of globalisation as a manifestation of expansion of capital across the world. Sitaram Yechury in 2001 in a seminar presentation entitled Globalisations and Impact on Indian Society highlighted how globalisation posed a threat to India by its strategy of homogenisation, which was authored by Western finance capital. The Maoists have been involved in a protracted war against the Indian state as well as the mainstream Indian Left, notably the Communist Party of India, as evident in its activities in West Bengal until 2011 when the Left Front was in power.
