Democracy in Marxism however. In the 19th century, "The Communist Manifesto" (1848), by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, called for the international political unification of the European working classes in order to achieve a Communist revolution; and proposed that, because the socio-economic organization of communism was of a higher form than that of capitalism, a workers' revolution would first occur in the economically advanced, industrialized countries. Marxist social democracy was strongest in Germany throughout the 19th century, and the Social Democratic Party of Germany inspired Lenin and other Russian Marxists. During the revolutionary ferment of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and 1917, there
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