INTRODUCTION : Karl Marx was a great social revolutionary as well as a social scientist. His influence continues to be felt not only in social sciences, philosophy and literature, but also through revolutions in countries like Russia, China and Vietnam. His thought is being interpreted and re-interpreted in different ways by several schools, such as the Frankfurt school, the existentialists, the structuralists, Russian communists, Chinese communists, Trotskyists and so on. The combination of revolutionary thought and action in Marx's work is of special significance for underdeveloped countries where revolutionary movements are growing.