An industrial union structure would unify all workers at any employment site into a single union, like the United Auto Workers, United Steelworkers, the United Mineworkers and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers were able to achieve in the first half of the 20th century. Such unions on a large scale would be the basis for a labor party, something the U.S. working-class has never been able to achieve, unlike nearly all other working classes in advanced capitalist countries. This is the real “American exceptionalism,” the blot that has destined generations of workers to that status of medieval serfs but with automobiles and mobile phones.