Karl Marx: Becoming a Socialist. In our previous lecture, we learned how Karl Marx's ideas are studied and used by philosophers, historians, economists, sociologists and political scientists.
What most people call the rebel flag or Confederate Flag is actually the Army of Tennessee Battle Flag. It was ordered by Gen. Johnston in late 1863 or 1864 to be used army-wide to replace various other battle flags that different CSA army regiments to avoid confusion on the battlefield.
So let us not romanticize what secession meant; it was anti-American by every definition; Rebels were set on destroying the symbol that represented the union they sought to dissolve. That is the very same Stars and Stripes that they now so proudly wave as patriots.