Question and Answer

Discuss why no significant socialist movement developed.

Many contentions have been sophisticated to interpret why the United States has been less conducive to radicalism and socialism than any other sophisticated developed nation. One interpretation that has been suggested focuses on the somewhat egalitarian feature of American life. (Nordhoff, pp 23-18).

Adult white male employees were born free--that is, mature individual white male workers possessed the ballot from the early nineteenth century. In Europe, it was the employed class labour for the ballot that prepared the base for socialist parties. American employees not ever had to labor for the right ...