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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 596401" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Looks like "revolution" was his middle name. Yes, it was cut and pasted because only an idiot would re-type all that!!</p><p> </p><p>When he graduated law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Washington, D.C.</span></u></a>, and moved to San Francisco instead.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#cite_note-newfaceofenvironmentalism-10" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">[11]</span></u></a> He got involved with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Together_to_Organize_a_Revolutionary_Movement" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement</span></u></a> (STORM), a group explicitly committed to revolutionary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Marxist</span></u></a> politics<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#cite_note-14" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">[15]</span></u></a> whose points of unity were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">revolutionary</span></u></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">democracy</span></u></a>, revolutionary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">feminism</span></u></a>, revolutionary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_internationalism" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">internationalism</span></u></a>, the central role of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">working class</span></u></a>, urban Marxism, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_communism" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Third World Communism</span></u></a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#cite_note-15" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">[16]</span></u></a> While associated with STORM, Jones actively began protesting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">police brutality</span></u></a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#cite_note-newfaceofenvironmentalism-10" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">[11]</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p>It was also after a few hours in prison that he announced he was a communist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 596401, member: 1246"] Looks like "revolution" was his middle name. Yes, it was cut and pasted because only an idiot would re-type all that!! When he graduated law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C."][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Washington, D.C.[/COLOR][/U][/URL], and moved to San Francisco instead.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#cite_note-newfaceofenvironmentalism-10"][U][COLOR=#0000ff][11][/COLOR][/U][/URL] He got involved with [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Together_to_Organize_a_Revolutionary_Movement"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement[/COLOR][/U][/url] (STORM), a group explicitly committed to revolutionary [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Marxist[/COLOR][/U][/url] politics[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#cite_note-14"][U][COLOR=#0000ff][15][/COLOR][/U][/URL] whose points of unity were [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]revolutionary[/COLOR][/U][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]democracy[/COLOR][/U][/url], revolutionary [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]feminism[/COLOR][/U][/url], revolutionary [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_internationalism"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]internationalism[/COLOR][/U][/url], the central role of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]working class[/COLOR][/U][/url], urban Marxism, and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_communism"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Third World Communism[/COLOR][/U][/url].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#cite_note-15"][U][COLOR=#0000ff][16][/COLOR][/U][/URL] While associated with STORM, Jones actively began protesting [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]police brutality[/COLOR][/U][/url].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#cite_note-newfaceofenvironmentalism-10"][U][COLOR=#0000ff][11][/COLOR][/U][/URL] It was also after a few hours in prison that he announced he was a communist. [/QUOTE]
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