The Problem With Looking for Lessons in the John Brown Story
time.com
Brown concluded that violence justified violence
  • GrouchoMarxist [comrade/them,use name]
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    4 years ago

    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

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      4 years ago

      Material conditions? What’s that? It’s all one man’s fault!

    • Comrade_Crab [any]
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      4 years ago

      And they lay the death toll at his feet?

      This columnist has a bright future ahead in the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation