Cheddi Jagan was a Marxist and also a realist

Mar 18, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
The letter by Mr. Emile Mervin in Kaieteur News on March 16, in which he referred to my comments on the disposition of the PPP political elites and in which he tries to place the PPP and PNC as the same and then tried to again put down President Cheddi, blaming him for everything, leaves me no choice but to respond to his nonsense.
Again, I have to repeat to those like Mr. Mervin: Cheddi Jagan was a Marxist and proud of it but he was also a realist and always saw himself as a reformer, but with vision. Jagan often said that he was like a Gorbachov who was a real reformer in the former Soviet Union, but was betrayed by the old hard-line, blinkered communists.
Jagan was a Marxist but saw the need for reform in the party and in the nation and in his last stint as leader of our nation, he was adapting to a changing world: just look at his relationship with the United States and Jimmy Carter after 1992 – the PPP today is not the PPP Jagan saw for the future so don’t blame him and their failure to reform that party (its constitution etc.) has nothing to do with Jagan – he died over 13 years ago and after his death, Jimmy Carter withdrew the Carter Center from trying to bring a realpolitic to our country.
Editor, Mr. Mervin conveniently leaves out the AFC when he talks about democracy and transparency in the political parties; the AFC promised the people of Guyana that in 2011 their candidate would be Ramjattan; I don’t know how the AFC came up with that “formula” but it sure smells because it’s the same thing I mentioned about the PPP, there’s no real democratic process in the AFC to pick leaders – no open process; they decided years ago that Ramjattan will be the presidential candidate, period; none of the voters for the AFC at the last elections were consulted – ever. So, what’s the difference?
I’m afraid that Mr. Mervin is so biased for the AFC that his attacks on the PPP and PNC are all underlined by falsities and false suppositions which he embellishes with a lot of words which have no real meaning. His proposals on party democracy should apply first and foremost to the AFC since he is such a devotee to their cause; let them lead the way in implementing a free and transparent system in selecting a leader for their cause; let them give us, the citizens, real meaning to the words they put together in forming their party, the Alliance for Change. Where’s the alliance concept when they attack those who want shared governance; alliance in the dictionary means “union or agreement to cooperate” or “coalition” or “the parties involved” and this is clearly not what the AFC is promoting. Change, in the dictionary, means “substitution of one thing for another” or “switch” or “making or becoming different” or “alteration or modification” and the AFC has certainly not shown any inclination to engage in these definitions of real change – for them it’s the same old, same old…
Cheddi Joey Jagan Jr

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