Is the PPP following the political vibes in London?

Sep 27, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

One of the most fascinating moments in Guyanese politics is likely to dawn upon this land in six months’ time. From all indications, the PPP is preparing for local government elections. The fascination lies in how countryside voters will treat the PPP in elections for the NDCs. It is certain that the PPP will suffer devastation in Georgetown. The question is; will that be the trend in the rural areas?
If the PPP wins a majority of the NDCs, then either its campaigns were superior to the opposition or the opposition didn’t campaign at all. If it is the latter, then money will determine who wins the NDCs, because for every dollar the AFC and APNU have, the PPP can match that by a million. It doesn’t mean AFC and APNU cannot beat the PPP for control of the NDCs. The opposition parties are never going to match the PPP in resources but with the little they have, the opposition parties have to campaign effectively.
If any party is vulnerable to devastation in the local government elections scenario it should be the PPP. What we are seeing in Guyana, is the worst form of American Republican approach to capitalism that the American Democratic Party and no other capitalist party in the entire capitalist world, including Ms. Merkel in Germany, accept. This is unregulated capitalism where ultra-wealthy investors are the only people that do well.
In Guyana, even some Republican legislators would find Guyana’s capitalism more extreme than what the US has. The other side of the coin is an impoverished working class and a lower middle class. The middle level stratum is in no position to achieve economic elevation.
Guyanese people are too psychologically burdened to follow world news, but some fantastic developments took place in the UK two days ago. The opposition, Labour Party, held its annual conference and showed off its broad approach to governance should it win in 2015. The conservative newspapers were screaming that the Labour Party was returning to socialism.
In a defiant mood, the Labour Party leaders accepted that capitalism is the best system, but not the way it has been adopted by the British Conservatives and their own Labour PM, Tony Blair
One of the guiding principles of a future Labour Government will be the book by the multi-millionaire Labour big wig, David Sainsbury, who is part owner of the biggest supermarket name in the UK, Sainsbury’s. Titled “Progressive Capitalism,” this is a fantastic book that no doubt has been read by President Obama since it came out last April, and no doubt most European leaders.
It is simply a methodology of what capitalism should be like. In fact, though Sainsbury didn’t say it, he implies that his approach to capitalism is what capitalism inherently is; there can be no other form of capitalism than the one he describes. In other words, history has come to an end with Sainsbury’s capitalism. Sainsbury argues that Tony Blair went terribly wrong when he accepted neo-liberalism in totality. Sainsbury contends that neo-liberalism takes capitalism to levels that no government should accept.
One government that did not learn the lessons of Tony Blair was Bharrat Jagdeo’s and now, his successor Donald Ramotar joins the band. How ironic – Jagdeo was trained in communist USSR. And Ramotar worked for eight years in the communist international in Czechoslovakia.
Both men belong to a party that has printed in its constitution the adherence to Marxism-Leninism. But both men are unashamed supporters and encouragers of the most indecent forms of neo-liberalism in Guyana. Even a staunch supporter of the PPP, Ravi Dev, finds neo-liberalism excessive and inhuman.
How poor country folks could watch the takeover of Guyana by ultra-wealthy men facilitated by Jagdeo and Ramotar and yet vote for the PPP to control over seventy NDCs in this country is not something any psychologist could explain.
If the opposition does its work and does it competently, then the local government election should be a rejection of neo-liberal domination in Guyana and the PPP that has nurtured it the past fourteen years.
What is taking place in Guyana simply cannot be allowed to continue, and sooner than later, something will have to give. The economic landscape is changing so fast that in five years’ time, all public resources will be in the hands of the ultra-rich. Public land has been given to private business for parking facilities and after hours, these lands are chained to prevent normal parking. Watch how you vote. Please!

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