This book is a philosophico-aesthetical critique of the Stalinist counterrevolution in the Soviet Union that strengthened the rise of liberal democracy and fascism in Europe & the entire world. As aesthetics it recalls the unity of truth, ethics and the creative of the sublime feeling of revolutionary enthusiasm. Goethe's verse from the West-End Divan "Should this torture then torment us/Since it brings us greater pleasure?/ Were not through the rule of Timur/Souls devoured without measure?" that Marx evokes in his celebrated essasy ' The British Rule in India' is central to this book. But what is this "torture" and "torment" that Goethe talks of and why does Marx recall this verse? Further what do Goethe and Marx mean by "pleasure gained through "torture" and "torment"? This book redrafts Goethe’s verse and depicts Yusuf, the legendary figure in West Asian folklore as a hero who gives rise to a counterrevolutionary. This hero giving rise to a counterrevolutionary is also the metamorphosis of Yusuf I into Yusuf II who comes onto the scene of 20th century history as Josef Stalin, the counter revolutionary par excellence. The ideas of the Asiatic mode of production and caste are also central to this book which claims that the entire caste system must be destroyed and transcend such that true and authentic humanity could be born. Otherwise Goethe's and Marx's figure of Timur in the forms of Stalinism, liberal democracy and fascism would once again enter the scene of history, devouring souls without measure.