Similarly, Louis Hartz, who sometimes disagreed with the Progressives, argued that Americans accepted laissez-faire capitalism without challenge because they lacked a feudal, precaptialist past.

同样，与进步派观点相左的路易斯·哈茨认为，美国人之所以能够毫无异议地接受自由放任的资本主义，是因为他们缺乏封建的、前资本主义的历史。