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Dangerous article in a sad country
When I was sixteen years old, I guess like most youths out of school in the Third World, I became attracted to communism. My flirtation with communism didn’t last long thanks to some fine intellectual minds I met in the academic world.
They showed me the theoretical pitfalls and philosophical flaws of communism. Also I read thinkers who made more sense to me than Marx.
The most frightening thing about communism is its inflexible belief in absolute truths and that those truths are embodied in the vanguard party that will change the course of history through the implementation of communism.
Communist people in the face of the most compelling reality will tell you that the reality that they see is false and wrong. Communist people believe they are a special, superior species of historical importance.
I have read and seen enough of this type of mentality to know that was one of the major factors in the collapse of international communism.
In Guyana, youthful communists like me were extremely lucky to have seen these “superior beings” at work. From the time the PPP emerged in the forties to the present moment, the PPP as an organization with its philosophical outlook, believes and accepts that it holds the truths of Guyanese history and it has been right about the nature and function of politics; all others have been wrong in the past and are wrong today about the PPP and what it stands for.
Yesterday, I got a call from a famous Guyanese who suggested that I would be shocked to the core when I read a certain article in the Mirror.
I couldn’t believe he would say that to me. He knows that I have studied, written about and have seen the PPP in action and nothing about this party can shock Guyanese. But he insisted that I would find the article incredible.
Indeed I did. It is a dangerous essay and one that symbolizes the politics of failure and the failure of politics in this land.
I would advise all academics, editors, opposition politicians and those interested in Guyana’s future to read it. Titled, “When will we get a clean and truthful media?” by Janet Jagan, the analysis is indeed shocking and impossible to believe.
Mrs. Jagan starts her evaluation of the media by going back to the forties. She wrote that since that time the media was out to get Guyana and the elites (her word) in the society then joined with the media in trying to destroy the PPP. She contends this trend has never stopped.
According to her, a coalition between the private media and people that hate the PPP continued ever since the forties and never ceased being relentless and is in full motion today.
We come now to the incredible part. She accuses the private media of using its letter pages to churn out hatred against the PPP.
She opines that nowhere in the world do you find this misuse of the letter section of the newspapers. She goes further and asserts that around the world you usually find editors carrying apologies and regrets but not in Guyana. She concludes by insisting that in Guyana there is an unpatriotic and destructive private media.
What is wrong with this assessment of history, politics and the media? Apart from its unbelievable denial of the graphic facts of Guyanese history from the sixties onwards, it must be seen within the context of the absolute truths that communism advocates.
What Mrs. Jagan is arguing here is that from the forties onwards, sections of the Guyanese society have never stopped hating the PPP and that hate has an ongoing life in the media.
But this cannot be supported by the compelling facts of the mountain of wrong-doing of the PPP since the fifties. Interestingly, she did not describe which section of the Guyanese society hates the PPP and which media houses are in the campaign.
Before we end, let us briefly educate Guyanese on the reality of Guyana. Stabroek News played no small part in the eventual creation of a democratic electoral system that allowed the PPP to come to power.
After it came to power, the PPP took the Stabroek News editor and carried him over to the Chronicle. Only a fool reading the Kaieteur News will accept that it hates the PPP.
The letter pages of the Mirror (of which Mrs. Janet is editor-in-chief) and the Chronicle are disgustingly obnoxious more than perhaps all other print media in the world.
Apologies are often seen in the private media. What we do not see in Guyana are apologies from the leaders of Mrs. Jagan’s party, which runs the government.
Let’s end with a question – does anyone believe what Mrs. Jagan wrote?
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