ABSTRACT
As to how Marx and Engels appraised economic and social conditions in America, there is no need for conjecture. They made themselves perfectly clear. We have their correspondence with fellow socialists in America over the years between 1848 and 1895. That correspondence makes a thoroughly fascinating book. I shall start out by quoting from one of these letters which seems to me to go far toward defining the nature of the problem I intend to consider in this chapter. It was written by Karl Marx to Weydemeyer, and dated London, March 5, 1852.
