On historical regression a note at the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the Manifesto

Limitations of the Manifesto (absence of the concept of 'social formation'; capitalism as 'homoficient') are treated as symptoms of a certain leftist theory with important practical political consequences. They are related to the deficiencies of the Yugoslav critical left (the belief that socialist revolution is irreversible; the underestimation of the main contradiction of post-capitalism: 'capitalist processes / socialist processes and practices') that prevented Yugoslav leftists adequately to confront the restauration of capitalism.