Cain, no, I am not denying that the PPP and some of its leaders did not lean towards communism or socialism. My point is that the governments headed by the PPP were in no way communist or socialist. At most, one might want to categorize the Jagan led government prior to Jagdeo after 1992 as social democrat.
Furthermore, I remind you that in the time of Cheddi and Janet Jagan going into politics and the formation of the PPP, the anti-colonial struggle was underway and then and later many of the persons leading the fight for national liberation in the colonies were propagating the “non-capitalist path” to economic, social, cultural development and colonial freedom. During that time many of these individuals and parties had close fraternal relations with the Soviet Union, China and Cuba. If the argument is that they received aid from these countries as they struggled for national liberation and economic development, then one has to remember the context of the struggle, that on the other side of the struggle, the colonial and new-colonial powers were actively supporting repressive dictatorships and those in colonies who promoted continued colonial and economic domination, that poverty and its associated ills were rampant for the vast majority of the peoples of Asia, South America, Central America, Africa the West and East Indies.