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

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Learning that on my banjo, rn. It’s slow work, I’ll be honest.

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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.

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

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“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.”

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Mexican history with Emiliano Zapata.

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Mandela and MLK Jr are the ones where this is the most obvious. Completely sanitised for high school history class consumption.

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