Most likely balance of power
Better Equipment
Explanation:
The Confederacy had much better leadership than the Union. The Union made the most of all of their natural resources, which they had a lot of. They had a large manufacturing industry, meaning they could produce new equipment and technology, including the railroad system.
When Marx said that <span>"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains" he meant that the common people of the word were already heavily disenfranchised, and only had opportunity to gain by switching from a capitalistic system to a communist one. </span><span />