If John Brown is remembered for one thing it would definitely be his nuanced both sides view of oppression
He was also a friend to his Native neighbors and a fond reader of Napoleon and Oliver Cromwell histories. Even setting aside his armed rebellion and Bleeding Kansas, the guy was never much of a pacifist and hardly one to shy away from extremism or his belief in the righteousness of working people.
This guy couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with a punt gun
“Modern John Brown would be Pete Buttigieg” is like some type of perverse blasphemy I don’t quite know how to digest. These tweets are genuine evil.
John Brown started my path towards being a Communist
I read what he did, how he so strongly understood the evil of slavery that he went out and did something about it, and that resonated with me
Of course, the people who would tell me, “Oh, he had the right idea, but he shouldn’t have killed people” only strengthened my respect for him, because I knew they were just the same mealy-mouthed cowards who would said they stood against slavery but would do nothing to actually dismantle the system that permitted it
John Brown didn’t conditionally advocate for people in bondage if they were christian, this person is completely thoughtless.
John Brown was really religious–>really religious people hate non-believers (which isn’t even generally true) but it’s demonstrably untrue in Brown’s case with even a cursory knowledge of his life
I posted this further up but John Ingersoll was the most famous atheist of the day and a friend of Brown and said this
But the real pioneer in America was old John Brown. Moved not by prejudice, not by love of his blood, or his color, but by an infinite love of Liberty, of Right, of justice, almost single- handed, he attacked the monster, with thirty million people against him. His head was wrong. He miscalculated his forces; but his heart was right. He struck the sublimest blow of the age for freedom. It was said of him that he stepped from the gallows to the throne of God. It was said that he had made the scaffold to Liberty what Christ had made the cross to Christianity.
Ah yes, of everyone in society to hate, it would be the communists for atheism and not the monstrous war machine that scours a million lives a decade and robs the global South of its resources every time its gaze falls upon a poor, barely defend brown country like the eye of Sauron. Yes, I’m sure he’d be an insufferable terminally online social media lib, rather than the one who shoots the insufferable terminally online social media lib.
communists are atheists
“Finance imperialists are soulless and satanic, every church is just a temporarily embarrassed Jeffrey Epstein pagan temple” this is atheism, I am very smart!
he’s gonna be real shocked to learn the religious views of like half of all communist movements in the Americas
Holy shit John Brown himself was so fucking sick of hearing this exact argument made about slavery he killed slavers with a giant sword.
No he had a broadsword and his sons beheaded a slaver. He also stole George Washington’s sword from his slaver great nephew and wielded it against the white supremacists at Harper’s Ferry (I believe by some accounts he parried a sword thrust from an opponent around a door corner)
If Tarantino doesn’t make a movie about him before retiring and dying then he deserves to get his corpse’s ass kicked
Man I don’t know much about John brown but every time I hear something new he gets cooler and cooler.
During Bleeding Kansas, some of Brown’s followers had swords, but AFAIK he never actually used one.
He beheaded at least one slaver with a broadsword, or rather his men did.
Late in the evening, they called at the house of James P. Doyle and ordered him and his two adult sons, William and Drury, to go with them as prisoners. (Doyle’s 16-year-old son, John, who was not a member of the pro-slavery Law and Order Party, was spared after his mother pleaded for his life.) The three men were escorted by their captors out into the darkness, where Owen Brown and his brother Frederick killed them with broadswords. John Brown Sr. did not participate in the stabbing but fired a shot into the head of the fallen James Doyle to ensure he was dead.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are the children of God” – Jesus Christ
“I, John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” – John Brown
Clearly, we can all see the parallels.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are the children of God” – Jesus Christ
“I, John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” – John Brown
Clearly, we can all see the parallels.
I don’t know about parallels but this certainly reads like a before and after.
If you’re a John Brown stan, you can’t complain about Hamas being religious extremists. After all, John Brown was a religious extremist.
