And for Bangladesh, socialism yet remains the great hope of the future. Mikhail Gorbachev’s Soviet Union collapsed not because socialism had lost its life force but because Gorbachev made a mess of things. For Bangladesh, socialism died the day the country decided that it needed the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to help it reach its target of developing itself. The truth for everyone in this country is that Tajuddin’s resignation led not just to an end to Bangladesh’s fledgling socialist experiment. Think of what Bangladesh could have been, can yet be, with socialism serving for its ideological moorings.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 06, 2020 11:37 UTC