Anthropologist Ernest Gellner wrote in his article "Islam and Marxism: Some Comparisons" that the Marxist world of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and that of Islam are mirror-images of one another in two key respects. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union the Marxist faith has collapsed and people are yearning for the return of pluralistic civil society in preference to strong, centralized states. But there has been no loss of faith in the Muslim World, and though civil society has been eroded in Islamic societies there is little call for its return. Ernest Gellner offers an explanation of how these parallelisms came about in 1991 [Reference: Ernest Gellner, Islam and Marxism: Some Comparisons. International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 67, No. 1, (Jan., 1991), pp. 1-6.]
Small nations like Singapore was not like its present state some 35 years back! Chinese residing in that state was untidy. They used to spit on the roads. There were several vices of the old Singapore. But when we see modern Singapore, it is having near-zero corruption level, and the people are having self-consciousness to do for betterment of mankind. When we look at West Bengal, we can see that the state of affairs are degrading gradually, instead of retaining it at the same level!
