What this chapter suggests is that even if Marxists cannot claim to have all the answers to the question of corruption and its forms and functions in political economy18, theorists and moral crusaders who come from other positions can learn from the theoretical perspectives and lived experience that Marxism brings to the subject. For those who do not approach the larger questions of political economy it raises with ideological blinkers, these insights can help make better sense of the state of corruption in India today.
