#17 – God’s Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End
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People's Temple
People's temple straddled the beginning and end points of the movement. As the author shivenipaul observed, jim jones built his movement on the debris of the sixties,. The era was still getting into its stride when he moved to california in 19 65. San francisco's summer of love was still two years away. Racism was more or less abandoned as an issue. Its place usurped by the aggressive introversions of feminism and consciousness raising. George jackson was still alive. Timothy leary and herbert marquuse were just becoming widely known. beetles had not yet composed their most famous music that would one day inspire charles manson. Ronald reg
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