Jim Jones, the hero of the left-wing progressives in the 1970s. Jonestown was a communist SJW cult.

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Jonestown was founded as a communist utopia obsessed with "social justice". Jim Jones believed that America was an evil capitalist empire founded on racism. Jim Jones campaigned with Jimmy Carter's wife on behalf of prominent Democrats during the 1970s. He was praised by Willie Brown, Walter Mondale, Jane Fonda, and many others.



Here is a video of Jim Jones where he says:

"The only thing that brings perfect justice, freedom, and equality, perfect love in all its beauty and holiness is socialism, socialism, socialism!"


Here is a video of Jim Jones and his progressive followers singing the Soviet Union national anthem.





"Willie Brown, longtime speaker of the California state assembly, a mayor of San Francisco, and the mentor of Senator Kamala Harris, was especially lavish in his praise of Jones, calling him "a combination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and Chairman Mao."


"Jerry Brown, California governor then as now, actually spoke at Peoples Temple. George Moscone, who owed his position as mayor of San Francisco to Jones, appointed Jones to San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission, where he quickly became chairman.

Left-wing lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane depicted Jonestown as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media. Jane Fonda joined other luminaries in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality.”

Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize winner who long served as one of San Francisco’s most admired newspaper writers, acted as a hype-generator for Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.

The local enthusiasm for Jim Jones proved contagious for national Democrats. Rosalynn Carter called Jones at her husband’s behest. She held a private meeting with him, put him in touch with sister-in-law Ruth Carter Stapleton, and had the Peoples Temple leader introduce her at a 1976 campaign event.

Jimmy Carter’s running mate, Walter Mondale, met with Jones on the tarmac in San Francisco."


"He preached the gospel according to Karl Marx. “I call capitalism the devil,” Jones said from the pulpit, “and socialism is God.” The Symbionese Liberation Army, Jones maintained, “moved us a little closer to change.”

Upon a pilgrimage to Cuba, Jones claimed through his newspaper that the island-prison had succeeded in abolishing racism, but he criticized it for not providing enough “freedom of choice” on abortion — a Temple commandment for women who became pregnant. “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,” he told parishioners. “No, my country ’tis of thee, terrible land of inequity, that’s what it is.”


Here is a tape of Jim Jones speaking. Some people had the audacity to not only voice their disapproval, except actually resist when ordered to feed the poison to their children. This was after they had been hearing more and more children screaming in agony and terror before dying. You can hear Jim Jones say at the 36:00 mark:

"This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity. ::: I call on you to quit exciting your children, when all they're doing is going to a quiet rest."



Here is a quote where Jim Jones was bragging that he was such a master manipulator that he actually used the church to bring people to atheism and communism. He claims that a visiting representative of the government of the Soviet Union was "spellbound" and allegedly stated:

"Jim Jones took the church and used the church to bring people to atheism and the study of communism!"



In order to join the cult, you had to renounce all your personal property and surrender it to the community. Here's a tape of Jim Jones demanding personal property lists to ensure "sharing" amongst the community. Anyone not agreeing to equal sharing of property was guilty of "theft".

 
Jonestown was founded as a communist utopia obsessed with "social justice". Jim Jones believed that America was an evil capitalist empire founded on racism. Jim Jones campaigned with Jimmy Carter's wife on behalf of prominent Democrats during the 1970s. He was praised by Willie Brown, Walter Mondale, Jane Fonda, and many others.



Here is a video of Jim Jones where he says:

"The only thing that brings perfect justice, freedom, and equality, perfect love in all its beauty and holiness is socialism, socialism, socialism!"


Here is a video of Jim Jones and his progressive followers singing the Soviet Union national anthem.





"Willie Brown, longtime speaker of the California state assembly, a mayor of San Francisco, and the mentor of Senator Kamala Harris, was especially lavish in his praise of Jones, calling him "a combination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and Chairman Mao."


"Jerry Brown, California governor then as now, actually spoke at Peoples Temple. George Moscone, who owed his position as mayor of San Francisco to Jones, appointed Jones to San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission, where he quickly became chairman.

Left-wing lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane depicted Jonestown as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media. Jane Fonda joined other luminaries in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality.”

Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize winner who long served as one of San Francisco’s most admired newspaper writers, acted as a hype-generator for Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.

The local enthusiasm for Jim Jones proved contagious for national Democrats. Rosalynn Carter called Jones at her husband’s behest. She held a private meeting with him, put him in touch with sister-in-law Ruth Carter Stapleton, and had the Peoples Temple leader introduce her at a 1976 campaign event.

Jimmy Carter’s running mate, Walter Mondale, met with Jones on the tarmac in San Francisco."


"He preached the gospel according to Karl Marx. “I call capitalism the devil,” Jones said from the pulpit, “and socialism is God.” The Symbionese Liberation Army, Jones maintained, “moved us a little closer to change.”

Upon a pilgrimage to Cuba, Jones claimed through his newspaper that the island-prison had succeeded in abolishing racism, but he criticized it for not providing enough “freedom of choice” on abortion — a Temple commandment for women who became pregnant. “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,” he told parishioners. “No, my country ’tis of thee, terrible land of inequity, that’s what it is.”


Here is a tape of Jim Jones speaking. Some people had the audacity to not only voice their disapproval, except actually resist when ordered to feed the poison to their children. This was after they had been hearing more and more children screaming in agony and terror before dying. You can hear Jim Jones say at the 36:00 mark:

"This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity. ::: I call on you to quit exciting your children, when all they're doing is going to a quiet rest."



Here is a quote where Jim Jones was bragging that he was such a master manipulator that he actually used the church to bring people to atheism and communism. He claims that a visiting representative of the government of the Soviet Union was "spellbound" and allegedly stated:

"Jim Jones took the church and used the church to bring people to atheism and the study of communism!"



In order to join the cult, you had to renounce all your personal property and surrender it to the community. Here's a tape of Jim Jones demanding personal property lists to ensure "sharing" amongst the community. Anyone not agreeing to equal sharing of property was guilty of "theft".


Most of the victims of Jonestown came from Oakland, CA
 
I sure don't remember anybody calling that crazed, manipulative, sick, SOB a hero of left, right, center or any other mainstream group at the time. I looked at the dates of your stories from 2018 and after. It does not jive with live memory from that time.
 
I sure don't remember anybody calling that crazed, manipulative, sick, SOB a hero of left, right, center or any other mainstream group at the time. I looked at the dates of your stories from 2018 and after. It does not jive with live memory from that time.

He was praised by many prominent left-wing politicians and even the actress Jane Fonda. They immediately distanced themselves from him after the mass suicide.

Did you not see him in the video holding hands with former first-lady Rosalind Carter on the campaign stage? Did you not read where Willie Brown compared him to a combination of MLK, Ghandi, Mao, and Einstein? No one knew what a sick SOB he was until after the mass suicide. Before that, the press refused to report on the complaints of people being prevented from contacting their family members in the cult.

Angela Davis, another Democrat hero of Critical Race Theory fame, radioed in a transmission and delivered a half hour speech to Jonestown where she gushed praise on Jim Jones.

Only left-wingers sing the Soviet National anthem, scream praises of socialism, abolish private property, and do everything they can to destroy the family unit.



Here is a quote where Jim Jones was bragging that he was such a master manipulator that he actually used the church to bring people to atheism and communism. He claims that a visiting representative of the government of the Soviet Union was "spellbound" and allegedly stated:

"Jim Jones took the church and used the church to bring people to atheism and the study of communism!"

Jim Jones provided his followers with bibles and encouraged them to use them as toilet paper.



In order to join the cult, you had to renounce all your personal property and surrender it to the community. Here's a tape of Jim Jones demanding personal property lists to ensure "sharing" amongst the community. Anyone not agreeing to equal sharing of property was guilty of "theft".

 
Here is a tape of Jim Jones speaking. Some people had the audacity to not only voice their disapproval, except actually resist when ordered to feed the poison to their children. This was after they had been hearing more and more children screaming in agony and terror before dying. You can hear Jim Jones say at the 36:00 mark:

"This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity. ::: I call on you to quit exciting your children, when all they're doing is going to a quiet rest."

 
I remember the Jones horror well. Will we ever be rid of the cults? Now we have frankie graham and the like. Same shit, different day.
 
Jones was the darling of the left wing politicians. He was a "preacher" but not the kind lefties tend to hate. He was more of a social (as in socialist) kind of religious figure. He was photographed with all sorts of democrat politicians including the 1st Lady at the time. The expression "drink the cool aid" came from Jonestown but seems to applicable to the vaccine scare these days.
 
Jonestown was founded as a communist utopia obsessed with "social justice". Jim Jones believed that America was an evil capitalist empire founded on racism. Jim Jones campaigned with Jimmy Carter's wife on behalf of prominent Democrats during the 1970s. He was praised by Willie Brown, Walter Mondale, Jane Fonda, and many others.



Here is a video of Jim Jones where he says:

"The only thing that brings perfect justice, freedom, and equality, perfect love in all its beauty and holiness is socialism, socialism, socialism!"


Here is a video of Jim Jones and his progressive followers singing the Soviet Union national anthem.





"Willie Brown, longtime speaker of the California state assembly, a mayor of San Francisco, and the mentor of Senator Kamala Harris, was especially lavish in his praise of Jones, calling him "a combination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and Chairman Mao."


"Jerry Brown, California governor then as now, actually spoke at Peoples Temple. George Moscone, who owed his position as mayor of San Francisco to Jones, appointed Jones to San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission, where he quickly became chairman.

Left-wing lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane depicted Jonestown as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media. Jane Fonda joined other luminaries in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality.”

Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize winner who long served as one of San Francisco’s most admired newspaper writers, acted as a hype-generator for Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.

The local enthusiasm for Jim Jones proved contagious for national Democrats. Rosalynn Carter called Jones at her husband’s behest. She held a private meeting with him, put him in touch with sister-in-law Ruth Carter Stapleton, and had the Peoples Temple leader introduce her at a 1976 campaign event.

Jimmy Carter’s running mate, Walter Mondale, met with Jones on the tarmac in San Francisco."


"He preached the gospel according to Karl Marx. “I call capitalism the devil,” Jones said from the pulpit, “and socialism is God.” The Symbionese Liberation Army, Jones maintained, “moved us a little closer to change.”

Upon a pilgrimage to Cuba, Jones claimed through his newspaper that the island-prison had succeeded in abolishing racism, but he criticized it for not providing enough “freedom of choice” on abortion — a Temple commandment for women who became pregnant. “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,” he told parishioners. “No, my country ’tis of thee, terrible land of inequity, that’s what it is.”


Here is a tape of Jim Jones speaking. Some people had the audacity to not only voice their disapproval, except actually resist when ordered to feed the poison to their children. This was after they had been hearing more and more children screaming in agony and terror before dying. You can hear Jim Jones say at the 36:00 mark:

"This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity. ::: I call on you to quit exciting your children, when all they're doing is going to a quiet rest."



Here is a quote where Jim Jones was bragging that he was such a master manipulator that he actually used the church to bring people to atheism and communism. He claims that a visiting representative of the government of the Soviet Union was "spellbound" and allegedly stated:

"Jim Jones took the church and used the church to bring people to atheism and the study of communism!"



In order to join the cult, you had to renounce all your personal property and surrender it to the community. Here's a tape of Jim Jones demanding personal property lists to ensure "sharing" amongst the community. Anyone not agreeing to equal sharing of property was guilty of "theft".


LMAO!!

Jim Jones a "hero of the left"?

Who feeds you kids this Bullshit and why do you eat it up
and come back for more?
 
There is not a single family, tribe, or religious community that is not communist or socialist.
That is the normal way all humans instinctively want to live.

The fact Jones may have manipulated people, pretending to be a communist or socialist when he really was not, is totally irrelevant.
 
The fact Jones may have manipulated people, pretending to be a communist or socialist when he really was not, is totally irrelevant.
Why do marxist shills always say that failed communist/socialist groups are just "pretending"? Even if true, it only goes to show how weak-minded people fall for the same utopian nonsense, over and over.
 
Why do marxist shills always say that failed communist/socialist groups are just "pretending"? Even if true, it only goes to show how weak-minded people fall for the same utopian nonsense, over and over.

You have it all wrong.
First of all, the Jonestown people bought into the idea of joining the commune over religion, not economics.
They did not believe in communism or socialism as a national economic system, but as a means of attaining a higher spiritual state.
Second is that the US and other fascist countries always intervein, either covertly or openly, to destroy any attempt at communism or socialism.
Examples are when the CIA paid General Pinochett billions to murder Allende and socialists in Chile, how we paid the Contras so murder Sandinistas in Nicaragua, how we invaded Vietnam, etc.
You can't claim a system does not work if the US deliberately and consistently destroys any attempt to implement it.
 
LMAO!!

Jim Jones a "hero of the left"?

Who feeds you kids this Bullshit and why do you eat it up
and come back for more?


It's a fact......you dumb ass....

Thanks to their growing numbers, Jones and Peoples Temple became influential in San Francisco politics, culminating in the Temple's instrumental role in George Moscone's election as mayor in 1975. Moscone subsequently appointed Jones as the chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission.[30] Jones was able to gain contact with prominent politicians at the local and national level. For example, he and Moscone met privately with vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale on his campaign plane days before the 1976 election, leading Mondale to publicly praise the Temple.[149][150]

First Lady Rosalynn Carter also met with Jones on multiple occasions, corresponded with him about Cuba, and spoke with him at the grand opening of the San Francisco headquarters—where he received louder applause than she did.[149][151][152] Jones also forged alliances with key columnists and others at the San Francisco Chronicle and other press outlets that gave Jones favorable press during his early years in California.[153]

In September 1976, Assemblyman Willie Brown served as master of ceremonies at a large testimonial dinner for Jones attended by Governor Jerry Brown and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally.[154] At that dinner, Brown touted Jones as "what you should see every day when you look in the mirror" and said he was a combination of Martin Luther King Jr., Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and Mao [Zedong].[155] Harvey Milk spoke to audiences during political rallies held at the Temple,[156] and he wrote to Jones after one such visit:[157][158]

Apostolic Socialism[edit]

Jim Jones developed a theology that had significant influences from teachings of the Latter Rain movement, William Branham, Father Divine, and infused with Jones's personal communist worldview.[123][75] Jones referred to his belief as "Apostolic Socialism". Following the relocation of People's Temple to California, Jones began to gradually introduce the concepts of his doctrine to his followers.[124][125] According to religious studiesprofessor Catherine Wessinger, Jones always spoke of the Social Gospel's virtues, but chose to conceal that his gospel was actually communism until the late 1960s.
 

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