Reflections on how and why revolution was thrown to the rubbish dump of history as a political concept and alos its concrete examples.

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.