Fascism, domination and the PPP

Dec 10, 2008 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

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An analytical discourse on the similarities between fascism and communism, two 19th century ideologies that sprang from the same social roots and philosophical worldview, cannot be contained in a short newspaper column. Even an elementary description of their identical base would take up too much space.
Important to note is that there are certain connecting concepts and belief systems. Let us leave out the question of God in both ideologies and look at other conceptualizations. First, emotions are seen as a misplaced value in the scheme of life by both systems.
Fascism and communism argue that if there is to be an achievement of the goals that are contained in the programmatic blueprint of the ideology, then emotions have no place in the final realisation. Emotions for the doctrinaire activists are frailties and weaknesses of the human mind.
Fascists and communists are extremely cruel people that would execute their own spouses and children if they get into the way of the master plan. History may be full of accidents but it was certainly a prediction and an expectation that fascism and communism would result in unspeakable violence.
It was no accident that fascist Germany under Hitler, and communist Russia under Stalin, are the two most bestial regimes in the history of the human race.
Secondly, violence and domination are values that fascists and communists put monumental emphasis on. Violence is seen as a way of life, and its use, the ideologues would argue, must not be frowned upon. Domination is perceived as a human trait that is essential for bringing about the agenda of the perfect society.
If the ideal state is to be fashioned out of the ashes of history’s failures then domination must be part of the use of power because it is the only road that leads to the classless society. A large percentage of Guyanese in and out of the country accepts the graphic fact that the PPP is a party that believes in communism.
They are always countered by those who say that cannot be true because the PPP boys and girls have fattened themselves with wealth and seek the company of Guyana’s rich classes.
This is an actuality in Guyana. Even the world’s most extreme communist Cheddi Jagan practised this type of communist hypocrisy. Jagan chose to send his offspring to the most expensive university in one of the world’s most successful capitalist countries and the closest friend of “imperial” USA, Canada.
The problem with those who mock the PPP communism is that they view the thing from holistic lenses, never stripping the communist plan and selecting what in it the PPP adopts and what in it, it cannot implement. From now until it is removed from power, the PPP leaders will pursue wealth for themselves and their close ones and allow the expansion of investments in Guyana. The PPP cannot effect state ownership in a country where the world will not accept it.
What the world does is that it allows the PPP to keep those parts of the communist/fascist framework that does not threaten what the major powers want from the PPP. Once the PPP retains a foreign policy that gels with Western interests; once the PPP accepts American request to facilitate drug curtailment in the Caribbean, once the PPP does not undermine free enterprise in Guyana, it will be allowed to preserve its ideological anachronisms.
The ABC countries and Caricom are not concerned with the Marxist-Leninist constitution of the PPP. They will begin to fear the PPP when nationalisation is resuscitated and the PPP’s socialist economic policies begin to damage the Caricom bloc.
The PPP then is given latitude to continue its embrace of certain tenets of the communist/fascist ideology. This explains the identical approach in the use of power by Mr. Burnham and all PPP leaders. Domination is the connecting thread.
From now until it loses power, the PPP is going to resist radio expansion. If it allows it, then licenses will be handed down only to fanatical PPP supporters. It will not adopt the Freedom of Information Act.
It will destroy the judiciary rather than allow for union recognition in the sugar industry if GAWU has been negated by a challenger and the court rules in favour of the latter. It will never offer space to opposition viewpoints and independent perspectives in the state media.
Mr. Ralph Ramkarran gave the feature address at the Berbice UG convocation last week and told the students that they have benefited from UG’s legal autonomy. He went on to cite the existence of other legally autonomous state institutions. I work at UG, and the PPP’s domination of that “independent” state institution is truly sickening.

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