[lbo-talk] Engels and the Lazy Mexicans, was Re: Obama picks Rahm Emanuel, free trade fanatic & welfare "reformer"

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 7 16:33:04 PST 2008


That's the reference given in the book I was citing, assuming I was looking at it correctly (Russian references are wierd). I'm guessing the NRZ article was added to the Russian edition of LF&ECGPh.

I do think there's a lot of Rhodes in M&E that people would like to forget.

--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
>
> Fascinating stuff. One wonders how deeply Engels had looked
>
> into the Mexican war. I was always under the impression
> that it
> was waged in the interests of slavery rather than of
> civilization.
> But undoubtedly we do see Engels quite willing to talk a
> lot
> like Cecil Rhodes.
>
> I don't find this, by the way, in the Feuerbach book --
> it seems
> to have been an 1849 article by Engels in the Neue
> Rheinische
> Zeitung, if we are to believe the archive at mlwerke.de.
>
> Thanks for bringing it to our collective attention.
>
> ___________________________________



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