The goats LEFT their pen through the LEFT side of the door

May 15, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

This column is being written four and a half months after the goat man gave a New Year’s Message on December 31, 2013, when he opined that what Guyana needs to take it forward into the future is for the PPP to form a “left, national front alliance”. Those were the exact words of the goat man.

It is obvious the goat man was talking to other goats since no group or political association on the left has joined the PPP in a left alliance. For the sake of young people in Guyana, let me briefly describe what the left in politics mean. By left is meant a left-wing or leftist ideology. Actually the concepts underwent tremendous configurations and saw countless permutations since WORLD WAR 2 and the end of colonialism.

A leftist organization in North America and Europe does not carry the same ideological content as in the Third World. The term has really become a confused one and it is hard to tell which politician is leftist and which is right-wing. For example, after the end of colonial rule, dictators in Egypt (Nasser), Zaire, (Mobutu) and Argentina (Peron) were regarded as left-leaning. The Congress Party in India is generally seen as leftist. The Labour Party in UK at the moment under Ed Milband would be regarded by academics as left-wing.

The closest one can come to is that a left-wing party must have uncompromising positions on some ideological nuances. These include the role of the state in trying as far as possible to distribute the wealth of a country that would see the disappearance of large classes that find it hard to live meaningful lives while other classes have humongous wealth.

Perhaps no other country mirrors this divide in horrible forms than the US today.

The citizens must have unfettered access to every conceivable sacred value such as justice, liberty, equality, opportunity, health care, security protection. The state as the most powerful institution must not be a tool in the hands of the wealthy classes because they will use it to promote greater elitist wealth.

This is where post WW2 Europe, except Scandinavia, has failed badly. Finally, the poor must be the constant target of the State to remove them from their impoverished condition.

This is just a brief list since space prevents further elaboration but what is important is that a leftist politician cannot be leftist and enjoys immense wealth which was not a result of capital accumulation but naked corruption. And a leftist politician commits an unforgivable sin if he uses state power for racist and authoritarian reasons.

Whatever approach or definition you have, the goat man is not left and his party is not left. This writer would classify the goat man’s party as semi-fascist and one that is an accumulator of wealth through massive corruption and a party that caters exclusively for the super-wealthy in Guyana.

One need not look any further than Bharrat Jagdeo. He shares a close bond with some of the richest men in this country. It is a travesty to call Jagdeo and his cabal left-wing. The goat man is the biggest defender of corrupt wealth, comically telling the nation that the billionaires in the PPP got their riches through hard work and saving.

In a million years they couldn’t get those fortunes from their little savings. One house in Pradoville One built in 1997 with money from OMAI gold fields has imported marbled walls from Italy. The husband/wife owners are no leftist politicians.

If you examine all the political party and activist associations in Guyana, none have the types of wealthy folks the PPP has. The entire PNC and AFC leadership are not wealthy people. The WPA is closer to being left than any other party. There are more working class Members of Parliament in both the PNC and AFC than the PPP.

So why after four months since the goat man made his call for the PPP to have a left front alliance in government no one has stepped forward? Because no party wants to form an alliance with the goat man and his billionaire colleagues in Pradoville One and Pradoville Two. And they haven’t done so for one fundamental reason – political survival.

A member or two may defect to the goat man’s party but not the party itself.

The Guyanese people will not forgive those who enter the pen of the goats. In any case the goats have left the pen from the left side a long time ago. They couldn’t stand Billy Goat. They left long ago for RIGHT-WING United States.

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