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States is "exceptional," qualitatively different in its organizing principles and political and religious institutions from those of other western societies. The great Frenchman had noted in 1831 that the United

In trying to explain the absence of a socialist movement, many socialist writers have described America in terms not dissimilar from those of Tocqueville. Less developed the image of their future." And there is no questioning the fact that, from the last quarter of the nineteenth century on, the most developed country has been the United States. Were deeply concerned with American exceptionalism, for it questioned the inner logic of Marxism, expressed by Karl Marx in the preface to Capital: "The country that is more developed industrially shows to the Wells in The Future in America, which came out the same year. His native language in 1906, Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? The question was addressed by the Fabian H. The German socialist and sociologist Werner Sombart dealt with it in a major book published in Engels tried to answer it in the last decade of his life. Secretaries of the American and Soviet parties.įor radicals, "American exceptionalism" meant a specific question: Why did the United States, alone among industrial societies, lack a significant socialist movement or labor party? This questionīedeviled socialist theorists from the late nineteenth century on. The issue even gave rise to debates within the Communist movement in meetings of Comintern bodies in the 1920s, in particular between Jay Lovestone and Joseph Stalin, the Of working-class radicalism in the United States.

Term "American exceptionalism," first formulated by Tocqueville in the 1830s, and since used in general comparative societal analyses, became widely applied after World War I in efforts to account for the weakness The United States, as noted by Alexis de Tocqueville and Friedrich Engels, among many visitors to America, is an "exceptional" country, one uniquely different from the more traditional societies and status-bound nations of the Old World.

Why Socialism Failed in the United States