The author is analysing the relationship between the bourgeoisie, the state, the communist party and the workers in the Portuguese revolution. After Portugal was question as a colonial power and an economic recession, also the bourgeoisie had an interest in centralisation. The role of young workers in the cities should not be underestimated either, who avoiding the control of the traditional social democratic and communist parties have questioned the private ownership of the means of production and launched new forms of self-organisation.

According to Mckenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto, which sometimes called Communist Manifesto 2.0, controllers of information production and information distribution have taken the power from traditional capitalists over the whole system. The article evaluates the merits and limitations of the book.

The esoteric framework of the critique on biotechnology and the generalisations stemming from it are problematic, writes the author. It is not clear, how the most promising biotechnology research could be banned en block on subjective ideological preferences, denying several possible practical advantages delivered even in a capitalist economy.

It does not matter where virtual realities begin but the actual question is who can define the end of them? Is a state or the civic society able to limit a development, which has its legitimisation by itself only? What is the future, what the techno-science with a messianic self image brings? Do we have an alternative at all?