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Jungle Geopolitics in Guyana: How a Communist Utopia That Ended in Massacre Came to be Sited

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  • Raymond E. Crist

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. When nearly 1,000 American men, women and children lost their lives in a mass murder and suicide rite in 1978 staged by a madman, Jim Jones, a former Christian minister turned Communist leader, many Americans asked, “Why?” The press, overcoming earlier lethargy, amassed facts permitting a sophisticated psychological and sociological explanation. Neglected, however, was the question why was the Jonestown Communist utopia sited in the Guyana jungle? Given the human and geographical circumstances, its siting in the Guyana rainforest was highly probable, affording evidence that, to some extent, at least, people and their geography determine human events.

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  • Raymond E. Crist, 1981. "Jungle Geopolitics in Guyana: How a Communist Utopia That Ended in Massacre Came to be Sited," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(2), pages 107-114, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:40:y:1981:i:2:p:107-114
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1981.tb01376.x
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