... Katznelson's relative pessimism stems from his distress over the ongoing fragmentation, refragmentation, structure and substructure of the amorphous, heterogeneous American (as opposed to European) working class. A hint of this pessimism/realism is suggested in his inclusion in "City Trenches" of a quote by Engels, writing in 1893 why there was "No Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially ... ...

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