[Marxism] Carl Remick

[Louis Proyect]

Carl Remick has died. Anybody who has been subbed to Doug Henwood's 
mailing list will of course know him well. Carl was not a subscriber to 
Marxmail but enjoyed reading the archives and passing along the 
occasional observation to me. He had a tremendous sense of humor and a 
great writing style. Politically and philosophically, he seemed to 
identify with American transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson. I 
knew nothing about him personally except that he was in his fifties and 
was in the PR business. Here's just one sample of his sparkling and 
witty writing. He will be missed.

The US Civil War showed Albion at its perfidious best.  True, the
British working classes genuinely opposed US slavery, but the British
establishment, as usual, simply amassed oodles of moolah for itself by
depending on the cheapest labor possible -- slavery -- while striking
preposterous, sentimental, hypocritical stances against slavery.  I
invite anyone to review Wikipedia's entry on Britain's involvement in
the Civil War and challenge that interpretation or dispute Wikipedia's
facts: 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_in_the_American_Civil_War>

BTW, one key example of Britain's sly collusion with the rebel US
South is that the Confederacy's most successful commerce raider, the
CSS Alabama, was built in Birkenhead, England.  The Alabama, sunk by
the Union Navy off the coast of France in 1864, did enormous damage to
Union shipping.  As Wikipedia reports:  "During her two-year career as
a commerce raider, Alabama had caused disorder and devastation across
the globe for United States merchant shipping. The Confederate cruiser
claimed more than 60 prizes valued at nearly $6,000,000. In an
important development in international law, the U.S. Government
pursued the 'Alabama Claims' against the British Government for such
devastation, and following a court of arbitration, won heavy damages."
  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama>

Carl

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