马克思生前非常关心美国。除了评论南北战争,预言美国经济大发展,为《纽约每日论坛报》撰稿达十年之久,他还在一八五○年前后认真考虑过移居那个“最现代的资本主义社会”,亲身考察并验证自己在《路易·波拿巴的雾月十八》中提出的著名设想——那个国度里“朝气蓬勃而又狂热的物质生产运动必然将造就一个它自己特有的新世界”。马克思未能成行及未留下系统的专论,这对众多敬重他的美国学者来说确是一桩历史 Marx was very concerned about the United States before his death. In addition to commenting on the Civil War and predicting the great economic development of the United States and writing for the New York Daily Tribune for ten years, he also seriously considered moving to the “most modern capitalist society” around 1850, In person, he examines and validates his famous vision of “Eighteen Months of Louis Bonaparte,” in which a “vibrant and enthusiastic material production movement is bound to create a new world of its own.” Marx’s failure to do so and the absence of systematic monographs are indeed a history for many respected American scholars