The VP living Archimedes

Oct 06, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

It was Archimedes who boasted, “Give me a lever, and I will move the world.” I observe what is going on in Guyana, with a resurgent PPP, and an omnipotent commercial caste and I behold a man at work: The Vice President echoing Vladimir Lenin, who converted that saying of Archimedes to: “give us an organisation of real revolutionaries, and we will turn Russia upside down.” He may not have “real revolutionaries” in the extreme senses of the word, but the Vice President is definitely turning Guyana on its head, and all on his own, through leverage of his will.
The VP inherited a disciplined organisation from his political forbearers, one that held together for decades, despite the assaults heaped on it, and all because it cemented around one guiding principle, one faith, one way only. The PPP revolves around an unbreakable centralism. Everything tiers up to the centre of gravity at the top. This is where the Vice President reigns supreme, like some sacred ancient potentate. It is the most savaging of ironies that the best thing that could have happened to him and his ambitions, was for the limitation against a third term. He gets the best of worlds: total power on an unofficial and undocumented basis, without even the trappings of some official answerability. His fingerprints, thumbprints, blueprints, and voiceprints are on all things both large and small, but he doesn’t have any official presidential existence. What could be better than that? More self-empowering? The man is undefeatable.
I examine realities and reach conclusions. What Guyana lives with now under this centralised PPP organisation (VP) without competing politics (impotent opposition), without competing estates (media mass), without competing elements (who and how) standing against it? Nothing. It is an organisation that is wholeheartedly and unalterably committed to one purpose, through one course of action: make as much money by any means necessary, inclusive of the untried, the unprecedented, and the unacceptable. The most money for the party and powers. And it is all driven by one singular binding feature: total obedience to the one man who rules both party and national roosts from the top. That is the Vice President. That is leverage, that is moving Guyana. He commands that kind of willing homage, ready kneeling, even outright prostration, because without him, the rest of the PPP’s apparatchik is nothing. Some old heads have been valiantly making the case that the PPP is no longer Marxist-Leninist. Capitalist pursuits and American twinning aside, they should have no difficulty looking at what the VP represents today, and how Lenin and Stalin were in old Russia.
As for Guyana’s official Head of State, he is understood for what he is: a convenience that works well for pretenses. Last, America made Burnham, and he remade Guyana, with Washington and House of Israel among America’s gifts to Guyanese. Today, America makes the VP in its own image, and he is its latest American poisoned chalice gifted to embittered accursed Guyana.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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