During Barcelona May Days, clashes broke out between troops of the popular-front government and radical revolutionary forces in May 1937. By analysing the events of the uprising and the following retaliation, the article values the chances of the popular front policy in a special historic constellation – during the revolutionary upheaval.        

The author reviews fractions of the Spanish anarchism in connection to traditional Spanish regionalism – their history and place in the political-ideological map. The study gives weight on anarchist ideas on production, land ownership and industrial governance.

Anti-Leninist anti-capitalism is a philosophical oxymoron, but it is nonetheless an existing and potent intellectual standpoint in "Anglo-Saxon political Marxism" – which has seen better days – and also elsewhere. It rejects some historical facts and developments with theoretical verve, thus barring the way for deep and comprehensive analysis of social developments.

The author discusses possibilities for a second wave of the world revolution. The first was the attempt of the Bolsheviks, which failed by the Stalinist turn. Today "the only perspective for a global revolution is establishing revolutionary powder-kegs in the »Third World«, which would create horizontal ties among each other – ignoring fundamental imperialist cultural institutions and narratives of the »First World« – leading to subsequent armed struggle and organisation of uprisings, establishing of »liberated zones« and seizing of power in specific countries."

The author speculates on perspectives of a global socialist revolution and searches subjective factors underlying it. Taking for granted the structural crisis of world capitalism, he calls upon classical answers to provide solutions, such as the philosophically most developed Marxism of History and Class Consciousness (1923) – especially focusing on the dilemma whether messianic Marxism is still applicable in today's conditions.