The last socialist experiment

Check out these posters by the Socialist Worker party, protesting George Bush’s visit to London:

For the record, today also happens to be the 25th anniversary of the end of the last socialist experiment, the grand design to rid the world of racism, sexism and war: the Jonestown massacre. Here’s what the Nation had to say about Jim Jones in 1999:

Instead, Jones preached a dogma whose idea was roughly that God was love and love was socialism and that therefore God was socialism.

Twenty-five years ago, that socialist experiment came to a horrifying end:

On Nov. 18, 1978, the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana, better known as Jonestown, became the site of one of the worst mass deaths in the history of religious movements. Out of a population of roughly 1,000 in the wilderness near the Venezuelan border, more than 900 men, women and children died, most from a grape-flavored vat of cyanide punch.

Of course, the Socialists and their buddies over at ANSWER will fail to see the irony of calling Bush a “killer” while ignoring the crimes of Saddam Hussein or Jim Jones.