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S'està carregant… Why is There No Socialism in the United States? (1905 original; edició 1979)de Werner Sombart
Informació de l'obraWhy is There No Socialism in the United States? de Werner Sombart (1905)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This expanded essay could just as well have been titled ‘Why isn’t America like Germany?’ When he wrote this, Sombart was a committed Marxist (he later became a Nazi) and he is trying to answer his own questions. His questions centered around one issue: ‘Since Marx predicted socialism or communism to be a natural product of capitalism, and America was the most advanced capitalist country why didn’t socialists make more progress in America?’ He comes to two primary conclusions. His first is that America has no classes. (It may actually have them, but Americans do not believe it.) With no feudal aristocracy, the working class viewed itself as standing on a rung of a ladder which included Marx’s bourgeois and they saw no use in a movement to destroy that ladder. His second conclusion was that American prosperity was limiting the opportunity for socialist growth. American workers had two or three times the effective income of German workers. Since they had enough to eat and wear, they saw no need for radical change. There are a few additional reasons given that have minor impacts, such as the normal American resistance to third parties and the ability of workers and minorities to become attached to local party machines within cities. (He does seem to overlook Black exclusion and the woman’s suffragette movement). The value of the work to me is the view that Sombart gives (unintentionally) of what I call ‘American Exceptionalism’. These are useful insights, but very hard to extract, so I can only recommend it to serious and committed students of that topic with time to spare. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature of American society. Tackling this debate head-on, Robin Archer puts forward a new explanation for why there is no American labor party-an explanation that suggests that much of the conventional wisdom about "American exceptionalism" is untenable. Conventional explanations rely on comparison with Europe. Archer challenges these explanations by comparing the United States with its most similar New World counterpart-Australia. This comparison is particularly revealing, not only because the United States and Australia share many fundamental historical, political, and social characteristics, but also because Australian unions established a labor party in the late nineteenth century, just when American unions, against a common backdrop of industrial defeat and depression, came closest to doing something similar. Archer examines each of the factors that could help explain the American outcome, and his systematic comparison yields unexpected conclusions. He argues that prosperity, democracy, liberalism, and racial hostility often promoted the very changes they are said to have obstructed. And he shows that it was not these characteristics that left the United States without a labor party, but, rather, the powerful impact of repression, religion, and political sectarianism. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Todo parecía destinar a Estados Unidos a ser la auténtica patria del socialismo: industrialización precoz, ausencia de jerarquías, culto a la igualdad etc...; y sin embargo, jamás el socialismo ha salido allí de círculos muy estrechos. Se han dado muchas razones para explicar este hecho. La explicación más evidente la dió el sociólogo alemán Werner Sombart cuando dijo que no hay utopía socialista que aguante el régimen de filetes de vaca y pasteles de manzana de la dieta norteamericana. Quizás no sea tan pretencioso decir que, junto con la Democracia en América de Tocqueville o el más reciente Hábitos del corazón de Bellah, esta obra de Sombart es una de las aproximaciones más interesantes a la sociedad americana.