Absolutely I knew that. On the heels of the mass suicide, it was fairly well known that Jones’ Marxist-Leninist leanings were what guided the formation of the commune at Jonestown. It was a mix of self-worshipping mysticism and marxism.
Somewhere I have an old Black Muslim newspaper...bought at a shopping mall in the 70’s from a Muslim rasing money to help “kids”....Okay, I was a dumb ass liberal in the 70’s....
Anyway, the cover story in the newspaper was about a meeting between the head (at that time) of this group (the one Muhammand Ali belongs to) and Jim Jones...Jones was being praised by the Muslim group for his social justice work.