American exceptionalizm?

[Tom Zurinskas]

What's the phrase "American exceptionalism" all about?

I do not think it means what we think it means.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/americanexceptionalism.htm

The notion of "American exceptionalism" became widely applied in the context of efforts to account for the weakness of working-class radicalism in the United States. The major question subsumed in the concept became why the United States is the only industrialized country which does not have a significant socialist movement or Labor party. That riddle has bedeviled socialist theorists since the late nineteenth century.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
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