The article presents Michel Löwy's La pensée de Che Guevara. Un humanisme révolutionnaire. The world has changed since the first 1969 edition of this book. The author however believes that Che's moral standing and his commitment to human dignity and liberty is a living message to our generation even in the age of "the end of history."

From the most well-known paragraphs of the Communist Manifesto one can derive some less well-known conclusions once we place the 150 year old text in a contemporary framework.

In 1789, the Declaration of Human Rights declared the equality of people a normative principle of political order. In principle, this also provided foundation for the participation of woman in public life. This, however, did not happen. Woman did not become citizens, so the new democracy excluded more than half of humanity from politics.

The article compares the concept of capitalism in the Communist Manifesto with the contemporary developments in world capitalism the end of state socialist experiment in Eastern Europe and the increasingly hierarchical structures of the capitalist world-system.

The 19th century has been seen as the period of the rise of the bourgeoise and the nation-state. Bourgeois revolutions played a crutial role in this process and also in the exclusion pof women from civil rights. In Hungary, resistance to this new dicrimination was even weaker than elsewhere.