10th April 2010, 9:10 PM
Unreadphilosophy Wrote:In short, even if slaves did exist in the South, they were not the main reason for the war. Furthermore, the North was not the great system that our Marxist history professors love to paint it as. If we are to learn anything from "real" history, it's that the South was fighting for its freedom. It was not fighting for the immoral practice of slavery.
Exactly why would Marxists want to paint the bourgeois capitalist north in a positive light given how much America is considered Satan incarnate in all Marxist circles?