[soakncider]

I have been a southerner for quite a while now, but i have never heard the Confederacy compared to marxism. I think that the opposite is true. the northern totalitarian aggressive abuse of a free and sovereign Christian people in the South resembles the acts of marxists.

[ought-six]

I am a Southerner by heritage, and the last label I would attach to the Confederacy would be “Marxist.”

[x]

Read Charles Beard. Many progressives who hated the big business Republicans of a century ago had a soft spot for the Confederacy. They had a veneration of Jefferson in common. Also, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that.

Closer to our own time, there's the odyssey of Eugene Genovese from Marxism to sympathy for the Confederacy. Kirkpatrick Sale (who's still around) moved from SDS radicalism to CSA-sympathizing Lincoln-bashing via Vermont separatism.

A lot of people on the hard left don't have much liking for Lincoln, who after all, was a Republican and a supporter of industrialization and corporations. Neo-confederates and leftists parrot each other and also compete in attacking Lincoln's racial views, though for different reasons.

[ifinnegan]

“I have been a southerner for quite a while now, but i have never heard the Confederacy compared to marxism.”

No. I said that the post-War revisionism was very Marixst in its outlook.

But, Jim Crow with its government enforced social engineering was quite leftist-like.