[lbo-talk] Joseph Weydemeyer; Engels supplied the North cannon through Weydemeyer

[Michael Hoover]

>>> cbrown at michiganlegal.org 02/27/06 9:33 AM >>>
charles, you don't believe above, do you...   Mh
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CB: Because this guy is right wing or something , who thinks he is
"exposing" the North as "communist" , by "exposing" Engels and Marx's
support for the North ?
Well,I guess I should have put a question mark by the sending of cannon.
Isn't the only questionable and new part the supplying of cannon ? The rest
I have read before.
My understanding is that the plan that Engels wrote about ( in a long
article which is in the Collected Works) a while before Sherman's actual
march, was a plan for something like Sherman's march, to cut the Southern
main supply route off. This was the crtiical strategic act for the North to
win, and Engels the great military scientist had pronounced it in theory
before Sherman's practice.
I guess that notion that Weydemeyer didn't do anything without Marx and
Engels' approval is exaggerated, but he was something of a protégé of theirs
,no ? Marx and Engels functioned as something of an thinktank for Lincoln,
writng to him directly.
This is the first I heard of actually supplying cannon. I thought it more
plausible because Engels had served in the artillery corps during the 1848
German revolutionary struggles.
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marx and engels, perhaps engels and marx in this instance given fe's 
greater impatience with what both thought to be incompetent union
military command/strategy in early years of civil war, while km apparently
never wavered in belief that north would win, engels was pretty pessmistic
for a time...

in any event, their 1862 co-authored article was largely a critique of union 
military commanders' so-called 'anaconda' plan for the south, while true
that sherman's march through the confederacy resembled suggestion that 
m&e make in their article, i don't think there is any - even half-baked - 
evidence indicating something akin to union military commanders 
consulting/reading engels and marx...   mh