it is very funny watching john brown stan periodically fight with the people who insist that he understands john brown wrong. like, i dunno, i think there are a lot of reasonable interpretations of how a radical 150 years ago would act today
I think we have to acknowledge that chattel slavery and landlordism are pretty different things, historically.
TBH, I'd be pretty afraid to be in a room with the actual John Brown and imply they might be in the same ballpark as each other. ;)
i don’t even agree the jb stan guy all the time but the number of communists who come at him because they think Brown was 19th century Che and not an *extremely* historically situated religious nut will always be funny
Someone with some historical perspective and a sense of shame might shy away from comparing chattel slavery with a lack of rent control, but I guess one of those things is lacking
Right, if we brought John Brown to the present day, he might be like "slavery is gone? Great! My dream has come true, now I can relax and begin my career as an investment banker"
I can understand this person's anger. How are we supposed to bring socialism to the United States when users of the bluesky social media application are insufficiently committed to the cause?
Y'all worrying about online social media terms.
Meanwhile, I have boots on the fucking ground at protests.
Get real. Get on the front line in person or STFU. Touch grass and get CS sprayed by the cops, or we ain't having this kind of talk. Way too many keyboard warriors these days.
