ABSTRACT
History may be as revealing of the future as youth is of age. Based on past experience, one can speculate on what is likely to happen, or what sorts of things might lead to desired results, but the process can be as much fortune-telling as science. For that reason, readers are asked to sort out for themselves what all the foregoing means for the future, as definitive predictions and prescriptions are beyond even the wide scope of this volume. I have mainly tried to show that the unique powers of American capitalism, the uniquely repressive use of those powers, and the country's unique political system say more about American conservatism than do theories about the unique traits of American labor.
