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When I was in I think 2nd grade I gave a presentation on the Civil War while wearing a costume of a confederate soldier.
I was taught that factory workers in the north had it worse than slaves, that the ~~Civil War~~ War Between the States was about states' rights, that Confederate generals were noble and honorable while Union ones were incompetent drunks who relied on essentially human wave tactics and burning down cities to win. Gone With the Wind was presented to me as an accurate and unbiased depiction of history.
Growing up I definitely had a couple awkward dinner conversations with certain "history buff" relatives where I was like, "Well sure, but still, I mean, obviously we can all agree the South was wrong, right?" and suddenly people start exchanging looks
I actually got a similar reaction once for saying the Crusades were bad, Catholics are fucking wild I tell you.
In Marx's "Theories of Surplus Value" which he never published while he was alive, but was instead compiled from his notes by Kautsky, and then later Riazanov, he called out 1700s reactionary anti-capitalists like Linguet who made these kinds of arguments.
(Linguet was guillotined by the Jacobins lol)
The kind French Jacobins would have guillotined everyone here
"Wage slave" is the modern equivalent. I get the point is to emphasize how deeply exploitative low-wage work is, but my boss can't cut off my foot if I don't show up.
My convert Catholic dad once told me that all the crusades were "self-defence" against Islam. I guess there must have been a really big threat of an islamic invasion of Europe from the Baltics.