This was retribution for murders against abolitionists. Every act of violence John Brown did was a reaction to provocative violence from the slaveholding class.
Edit: not saying this to correct you, but to justify/defend his actions
Edit 2: Potawatamie is fun to say, I'm glad he killed people there so I get to say that word more often and because they deserved killing
:thonk: Well I'm convinced, chapo.chat should ban discussion of violence against slaveowners!
Brown concluded that violence justified violence
Yeah what of it
Right, like these nerds come to the same exact conclusion when it comes to a capitalist state versus protestors demanding "defund the police", but their blinders are on too tight to even realize that a state is a monopolization on violence. Feckless bastards
Holy fuck are they blaming Brown for the civil war? Really? And they lay the death toll at his feet? No considerations for how the alternative was to let slavery happen, instead we should weep over the people who benefitted from said slavery? Fuck this writer
And they lay the death toll at his feet?
This columnist has a bright future ahead in the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
violence bad, the slaves should have fought the slaveowners in the marketplace of ideas
The Problem with Looking For Lessons in the John Brown story is that his K:D ratio wasn't high enough
Wow, not only is it the worst of takes on John Brown, the shittiest stretch to "just vote guys, police brutality is a weird outlier that can be solved by people who have refused to solve it for decades", but it's also shilling their book that's just a long form version of the same damn thing.
The south were so entrenched in slavery they fought a war that there was never any real hope in hell they could have won to preserve it.
There are and were only two options. 1. Someone kills enough of them to stop them treating human beings as objects to be owned or 2. You let them carry on doing slavery in which case there'd still be slave auctions in the south today. Those are the only two choices.
I'm not a general or whatever so maybe there was stuff tacitcally or strategically John Brown got wrong but the general idea of murdering and terrorizing slaveowners was absolutely the correct and 100% morally justified decision.
His only issue was he didn't have a machine gun
smdh
hindsight 20/20
:doomer:
Here's the lesson: it's cool to stab slave owners with swords
The problem is that he allowed himself to be caught
John Brown killed slavery, launched the Civil War, and laid the seeds of civil rights for non-whites. When a times writer does anything as remotely impressive as that I'll listen to what dribble they have written about him, until then, his soul goes marching on!
