This paper seeks to find continuity between revolutionary movements that were mobilised by the promise that better future is coming, the promise given by Marx in Communist Manifesto. The main assumption is that the defeat of these struggles is integral to the structural logic of the promise itself. Because of the fact that the future remains open, unpredictable, this revolutionary process can never be finished. By analyzing the mood that emerges after the (necessary) failure of these movements (because there is always a discrepancy between the wanted goals and what was really achieved), I try to make a connection between revolutions that Marx writes about and contemporary revolutionary struggles. Because of this inability to materialize the revolutionary promise, specter of Marx keeps haunting both the „forces of order“ threatened by that promise and those who mobilise with the goal of fulfilling that promise (this includes Marx himself). In the attempt to find above mentioned continuity, I had analyzed Marx's texts he wrote immediately after the revolutions of 19th century and compared them with text and lectures of some of the most prominent (ex) Syriza's party officials after its failure to implement revolutionary program. I also made the same comparison based on the interviews with five active participants of the student rebellion of 2009 in Croatia. The main thesis is that the same specter that was haunting Marx never stopped haunting those who try to make communist promise a reality but also those „forces of order“ who try to banish it.