“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”

well, yeah, it was “kill all slave owners” that pissed spez of. my man wants to own slaves so it felt like a personal attack.

Things done changed on this side

you think John Brown is cool? Well, one time during Bleeding Kansas, in retaliation for some slavers killing some abolitionists, John Brown and his crew pulled up to the slaver’s house, dragged the offenders out of their homes, and hacked them to pieces with swords.

Still think he’s cool now?

TIL about John Brown’s Body in both song and poem, both of which go hard!

My take: The difference is this is a statement from freed black man and former slave basically saying a white guy was cooler than them, so redditors like it.

You have upvoted problematic content warning yada yada

I don’t get why people think it had anything to do with John Brown or saying slaveholders were bad. that was just the most popular thing being posted on /r/cth at the time, but the admins wanted to get rid of a left wing sub and just did it, it had nothing to do with what was being posted at the time.

I just know in my heart that John Brown would have supported Ukraine. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦