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"Also John first focus on getting the terrified slaves to a safe place rather than expecting them to immediately pick up weapons they've had no training on and start a revolution that spreads like wildfire, this shit is complicated and you need to plan better"
Except you are buying into propaganda John Brown had actual plans that you are ignoring mainly involving maroon communities are hit and run tactics modeled after places like Jamaica and Haiti where they were successful.
According to the Biography of John Brown by WEB DuBois, he specifically modeled his plans after the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, the OG guerillas (I mean, asymetic warfare is as old as warfare, but the first literal "guerillas"). It almost reads like Mao's Protracted People's War, but in Appalachia. I avoid counterfactuals, but I wonder sometimes what direction the US would've taken had he succeeded in making off with the contents of the armory
of course its a lemmy user coming in here to smear john brown jfc