Thousands upon thousands of fine, young men died for the Confederacy, seeking to limit the runaway powers being usurped by the Federal Government.
Contrary to modern Black rhetoric and the yammering of various Leftists, who clearly feel ‘it’s all about them’, the fighting was about runaway centralized power, not cotton pickers.
Actually, the left viewpoint and the Southron viewpoint are the same - that it wasn’t about Slavery but to expand northern industrialist power.
I think the Communists got their talking points from the Southron sore losers.
I say this as a direct descendent of at least two Confederate soldiers, one fought for Tennessee, one for Mississippi.