According to the book Reflections on a Ravaged Century by the British historian Robert Conquest, Marx was unable to put the Asian society in the development stages of slave, feudal, capitalist, socialist, and as a result, Asian society where much of the world's population lived for thousand of years was "out of the balance".
According to the book "Reflections on a Ravaged Century" by Robert Conquest, Marx was unable to categorize Asian society in its development stages as slave, feudal, capitalist, socialist, and thus, Asian society where much of the world's population lived for thousands of years was "out of balance".