Center for Economic and Social Justice powers and profits of land and productive assets became concentrated within a tiny elite of private owners. To remedy the abuses of concentrated capital ownership, Marx and Engels in "The Communist Manifesto" (1848) declared, “[T]he theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: the abolition of private property.” In contrast, Kelso turned the socialist's central assumption around by asserting that private property, far from being the problem, is essential for creating a truly just free market global economy. An economically just economy is one in which every citizen can be a capital owner without taking property
Politics: A Work In Constructive Social Theory be more in keeping with the context-smashing potential of the human imagination; "Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task", is a "critical introduction" that delves into issues of social science underpinning Unger's project; and "Plasticity Into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success", is a collection of three historical essays illuminating the theoretical points Unger advanced in the first two volumes. In 1997, an abridged, one-volume edition of "Politics" was issued as "Politics, The Central Texts", edited by Zhiyuan Cui. In "False Necessity", Unger presents both an explanatory theory of society and a program for