The Communist Manifesto 1848) in Ghent to establish a branch of the Democratic Association there. Subsequently, having not heard from Marx for nearly two months, the Central Committee of the Communist League sent him an ultimatum on 24 or 26 January, demanding he submit the completed manuscript by 1 February. This imposition spurred Marx on, who struggled to work without a deadline, and he seems to have rushed to finish the job in time. (For evidence of this, historian Eric Hobsbawm points to the absence of rough drafts, only one page of which survives.) In all, the "Manifesto" was written over 6–7 weeks.
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