I’m sure you neoConfederates have more in common with progressives since both want to enslave people.
“I’m sure you neoConfederates have more in common with progressives since both want to enslave people.”
The original ‘progressives’, Karl Marx and his buddy Friedrich Engels, hated the Confederacy and were big cheerleaders for Lincoln and the Union cause. This can be easily learned by reading their writings on the American Civil War which Marxist neoYankees conveniently have posted for your enjoyment:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/us-civil-war/
Moreover a sizable portion of the Union Army was made up of immigrant ‘48ers, European radicals who had failed in their attempts at revolution back home.
So yes, there definitely were progressives involved in the American Civil War, and they supported big, centralized government as progressives always do. In the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War a number of Americans formed units that fought alongside the communists- the ‘Abe Lincoln Brigade’ and the ‘John Brown Battalion’ being two of them.