ABSTRACT
In no other country and among no other people was capitalism favoured with circumstances that permitted it to develop to the most advanced state. Men have been moulded for centuries as if in a task of conscious preparation, and the most recent generations of them were appointed to pave the way for capitalism's invasion of the virgin terrain of America. Finished with Europe, they moved over to the New World with the will to carve themselves a new life based on principles of pure reason. Perhaps one may best recognise how dominant the capitalist system is by examining the American social structure, which no longer contains any feature of non-capitalist origin. There is no feudal aristocracy, and instead the capitalist magnates have the field to themselves. The time that Marx could foresee only in his imagination when he wrote Capital has already arrived in the United States.
