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Reply to "Burnham fought inequality, poverty and illiteracy."

caribny posted:
comrade posted:
 

Fidel Castro saw  many virtues in both men also. 

It was pure Cold War politics. Janet Jagan was a Marxist Leninist so Castro became interested.  The USA, fearing that Guyana might become another Cuba got the UK to rein him in and concocted a CIA plan to remove him. Castro and Moscow concocted their own plan to keep Jagan there.

Roll forward to the 70s. Moscow determined that all left wing parties should be supported, not just the Marxist ones so embraced people like Burnham, Manley and Bishop, and even lent a friendly ear to Eric Williams.

Jagan was told to cooperate and like the little commie lap dog that he was followed their orders to befriend Burnham even though he knew that he was a monster.  Fidel was in almost as bad shape as by then he had done so much damage to Cuba that it couldn't survive without the USSR, so had to do as it was told.

Carib,

What you don't say is that LFS Burnham was also a passionate Leftist like Cheddie who worked hand in hand with Castro and his bosses in Moscow in supporting Marxist forces fighting in Mozambique, Rhodesia, Namibia, and South Africa. Forbes insisted on numerous occasions that his party was socialist from inception and is the true vanguard of the working people of Guyana. His real Marxist vision for Guyana was revealed in his speeches at the Sophia declaration. In those speeches he attacked the PPP for being a bourgouis party which never had the interest of the working class at heart. Nationalization of foreign industries in Guyana was prerequisite for building that society they envisioned as "each according to the ability to each according to his work".  Cheddie was vehement at the defection of many of his top idealogues to the PNC . He declared Burnham's socialism to be hoax and charged the Burnham was a skillful demagogue who was a genius at coaxing politicians over to his side.  Don't forget that the man who presided over the transformation of Guyana's economy to a planned economy was his finance minister, Desmond Hoyte, who later succeeded him in becoming president.

Billy Ram Balgobin
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