The Reasons Why
Why is There No Socialism in the United States?

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1979/feb/08/the-reasons-why/?pagination=false
Date Written:  1979-02-08
Publisher:  The New York Review
Year Published:  1979
Resource Type:  Article

The American working class, it seemed, was immune to the appeals of socialism even under the most auspicious conditions. But why?