ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author emphasizes why workers had no aristocratic institutions and values to react to. He outlines the history of Canadian socialism in some detail, it is because this history illustrates very well that the efforts of organizers and ideologists, while obviously necessary for the formation of socialist parties, are not sufficient and it suggests further what conditions may be sufficient to that end. European socialists who were convinced that capitalism produces socialism felt certain that a socialist labor movement would have to develop in the United States. While the United States has long attracted attention as supposedly the first country to undergo far-reaching industrialization without developing a socialist labor movement, a word must also be said in this context about Britain. Like the United States, Canada has no aristocracy or peasantry in its history or its present, and class divisions have therefore never been prominent in fact or in the consciousness of its people.
