Marxism in the Reconstruction Era South?

Is it possible that between 1865 and 1880 that a Marxist movement could take root in the former Confederate States? Or is this completely unlikely? What would it take to have a Socialist Party with origins and support in the South?

It seems to me that the ideas of Socialism and Marxism were more easy to swallow in the USA before the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Red Scare after that. Am I wrong in this?
 
Is it possible that between 1865 and 1880 that a Marxist movement could take root in the former Confederate States? Or is this completely unlikely? What would it take to have a Socialist Party with origins and support in the South?

It seems to me that the ideas of Socialism and Marxism were more easy to swallow in the USA before the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Red Scare after that. Am I wrong in this?

Regarding how much Marx supported Union in the war, giving it an importance that it hadn't in Europe far-left politics, I'm not sure a southern Marxist movement could exist as your OP describes.
 
Regarding how much Marx supported Union in the war, giving it an importance that it hadn't in Europe far-left politics, I'm not sure a southern Marxist movement could exist as your OP describes.

It might emerge among the freedmen and Southern Unionists as well as Northerners who settled in the South.
 
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