Pakistan, June 3 -- "Violated, dishonoured, wading in blood, dripping filth - there stands bourgeois society. This is it in reality," Rosa Luxemburg said. From Iraq to Syria, from Libya to Palestine to Lebanon, death-a guiltless negation of utopia- dances naked to Dionysian music, depicting the wild side of human experience.

When Engels said, "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism," his words probably did not help the ordinary intellect grasp his reasoning because, by then, only a small part of Europe had entered capitalism. Nevertheless, history is now revisiting its colonial past, and the slaughter of innocent human beings has become the new norm. A persistent live-strea...