Churchill once wrote a counterfactual history of the American Civil War, where Confederacy wins at Gettysburg, marches on Washington and then emancipates slaves with British help. No need for Reconstruction (!) - by 1905 an Atlantic white bloc achieves global hegemony.
Surely the desire for an English-administered Reconstruction had something to do with this episode:
"It is said more Confederate flags flew over Liverpool than Richmond [the city in Virginia was one of the Confederacy's capitals]." bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
But also:
"With the cotton industry on its knees, Lincoln acknowledged the self-sacrifice of the 'working men of Manchester' in a letter he sent them in 1863... "sublime Christian heroism, which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country."" theguardian.com/theguardian/fr…
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Also such an interesting window into the 'habitus' of New York lumpen capital, the kind of skills you have to develop to survive and prosper in that milieu.
Whenever I find myself enjoying Hayek I remember that his ideal of human flourishing is an estate agent.
The Greeks had Aristotelian warriors, the Gauls druids, the Aztecs mortal gods, America yeomen, Britain the gentleman — neoliberalism gives us... the estate agent.
I honestly don’t understand how anyone on the right can read both Hayek and Nietzsche and go: “Now let me fuse these for my ideology.”