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Reply to "The richness of Cheddi Jagan’s parliamentary struggle is second to none."

Zed posted:
seignet posted:
Zed posted:
seignet posted:

In Guyana, post colonial leadership among Indians is very poor. CBJ thought doing things Indian was anti-guyanese. So he took us down a destructive path by dismantling Indian Leadership. Check see how many Indians he ridiculed. I put him in the same category as Forbes-asbsloute demented individuals.  

This is bunk. There is no moral equivalence  with Burnham and Jagan. Was it not Burnham that made you flee Guyana? The Indian leadership in the latter part of the 1940's and early 1950's focused mainly on their own economic interest, paid lip service to the interest of East Indians.   Why blame Jagan when the Indian leadership was weak? It was until the PAC and the PPP came along that the interests of the working people of Guyana were coherently and massively represented in the political structure. So, the Indians benefitted from this and your so called Indian leadership were made irrelevant and other Indian leaders attuned to the needs and interests of East Indians emerged. People like RAi were  going no where until they linked up to the PPP Under jagan and went no where when they left the PPP other than being quislings for Zburnham and some for the USA.

The moral eqivalence is that CBJ set the stage for what Guyana is today.

Burnham never had to have that opportunity to do what he had done and his proteges to follow.

In his book, he proudly states how he was beseeched by the BGEIA not follow the path on anti-British.

I see a country that is never getting anywhere. I witnessed and lived in it when it like utopia. And he wrecked it. 

Doan blame Forbes, CBJ removed the checks and balances for him by simply being anti-British and anti-American.

Today, it is considered the PPP lost the 2015 elections because of fiery speech by Priya at US ambassadors home. 

Do these pple ever learn?

Hell, no!

And they have created Granger just as  they created Forbes.

Destruction of a whole country is eqivalent by both CBJ and LFSB. One for communism the other for the right to govern bcz they the were slaves.

Cheddie had to solutions for Guyana-just examine what he left behind. I think he allowed his fateful to thief.

1. From your opening statement, it is obvious that you do not know what moral equivalence means. 

2. Why not blame the British, the American or the capitalist? This was not about communism, it was about how profits were to be created, accumulated and expropriated by the rich in foreign countries and a small elite in British Guyana. It was about the conditions under which the poor and the working class laboured.

3. It is ludicrous to say that the PPP lost the 2015 elections because of what Manickchan said to the US ambassador.  This is unidimensional, poor argument and scholarship. There were many other reasons. But the victory by Granger still has to be confirmed after the decision on the petition, if it ever comes.

4. Blaming Jagan for the dictatorship is like blaming the victim for being bullied, the raped for being raped. Why not blamed the inequalities that he sought to address? Or the poverty! Or the inequalities? Or the racism? Or the poor nutrition and high death rate? Or the high rate of illiteracy? No.  It is easier to blame someone else than ourselves who helped to create what we currently have either by our acts of commission or omission. 

5. You might have lived in another country and not Guyana. Or maybe you were rich and lived like gods at the cost of the poor and working class. When was Guyana ever Utopia? Maybe you need to understand what utopia is, maybe a definitional problem. By no sense if the imagination Guyana prior to 1950 was a utopia, now was it a utopia during the ppp years prior to the 1964 elections. And not in your wildest dream after that! 

i agree with you that Guyana is going no where. What have you done or are doing to help? Other than being a keyboard warrior which is nothing.

Well said Zed !!! some people speak through their A** on this forum  . 

Good schooling ... 

FM
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