Rubbish, it's no defense of Marx to report that he & European workers opposed serfdom and slavery, and so naturally supported the Union.
And it's no "class warfare hate on the Brits" to report that their "upper crust" loved, loved the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and so wanted to help the South.
Those are simply facts, even if you don't like them.
Pelham: "Scratch a South hater and there's often a leftist lurking under the surface.
You usually manage to hide it better."
More lies.
My mother was Southern born & raised, half my larger family is Southern, I love the South and Southerners.
But I hate your endless lies, and strongly disapprove of those Southern slaveholders who declared secession & war on the United States to protect their "peculiar institution".
As for "leftists" -- there are no "leftists" that I've ever seen on Free Republic, not even serious Never-Trump Republican "moderates".
So to see the truth here we have to first remember how the old International Socialists (Stalinists) called National Socialists (Nazis) "right-wing" -- well... from the perspective of fanatically Left Communists, mere Nazis were indeed "right-wing".
But from everyone else's perspective, both Communists and Nazis were just two peas in the same Leftist Socialist pod.
Today, from that same viewpoint, our old-time Southern Democrat conservatives call Goldwater-type Republicans "leftists" or "neo-cons".
Well... it's just more pure nonsense, and the real truth is you old-time Southern Democrats weren't at bit "conservative" when Democrat Socialists like your darling Franklin Roosevelt offered you a place at the Federal trough, you were slopping right along with the rest of the pigs -- root hog or die!
So don't you "leftist" me, you GD Democrat.