They are fascinating articles.
They are especially interesting when trying to assess the oddball attempt to equate the Confederacy with Marxism.
Compare this review of Marx and Engel's Civil War writings with the claim that there was something 'Marxist' about South:
The Civil War opened the road for the final triumph of the bourgeois-democratic revolution in the United States. During the fight to the death with the slavocracy, Marx and Engels in their capacity as revolutionary labor leaders correctly stressed the positive, democratic, progressive and revolutionary significance of the struggle waged by the bourgeois republic. They based their practical political policy on the fact that the struggle of the working class for its own emancipation would be promoted by the victory of the North and thrown back by the triumph of the Confederacy. At the same time they never proclaimed their political confidence in the Republican bourgeoisie, freely criticized their conduct of the war, and maintained their independence vis-à-vis their temporary allies.
Well I suppose that it's possible that Marx and Engels simply weren't aware of what Marxism is, and so championed the North when they should have been cheering on the Confederate 'slavocracy'. Either that or the revisionists who are making the Confederacy = Marxism argument are fools.
I always figured that modern communism looked at the antebellum south as its model.
With the Party members living in the “Big House”, and the rest of the proles given enough to live on as long as they were productive. Oh, how hard the party members have to think to justify their life of ease in the “Big House”.
And of course the proles were relieved of all that thinking stuff, in return for their ration of red pottage.
I find the term “slavocracy” amusing. Just as Aristocracy means rule by the best, democracy means rule by the people, slaveocracy would mean rule by slaves.
I don’t think that was what Jeff Davis had in mind. He even perverted the statue on the Capitol to replace the Phrygian cap with a military helmet. He was not about to dedicate the Capitol to a freed slave, the meaning of a Phrygian cap.