Dear Editor,
I note that a former president preceded by a former Speaker assert that the PPP is no longer Marxist-Leninist. Given all the free-market capitalist skullduggeries now characteristic of PPP leaders and party cabals, I am glad they came out with this helpful public confession. Though the former president is entitled to living in his own self-made reality, it is clear that his ‘nancy’ story only holds up partially. In its capitalist greediness, the PPP is now at home, but regarding destructive Marxist-Leninist-Maoist practices, it’s unchanged. It is good that these onetime PPP cardinals of Guyana’s Kremlin have confessed, which I think is the latest deception from a long deceptive group. Not being Marxist-Leninist is the equivalent of the pontiff admitting to being an atheist. The next thing the honourable leaders of this country and parliament are going to tell Guyanese is that the party and its leaders (especially the present crop) are about ethics and excellence. They are the worst at playing saints.
In terms of Marxist-Leninist practices still cherished, there is more and more control of the media for the party’s and leadership lies to be transmitted to cover-up criminal behaviours that rob taxpayers; the taxpayers’ money is used to whip them into shape. Mind control and total control have always been defining features of Marxist-Leninism, which is why there were gulags for dissidents, so-called criminals, and those that leaders declared insane. The irony is that a top-rank Bolshevist, like psychiatrist Bogdanov and a onetime Lenin physician Takhtarev assessed him as psychotic. That is why they killed so many of their own, just like Chairman Mao. The state police is misused with a Beria let loose until he became too much to stomach, and they had to kill him, too.
Editor, look at what was and is in Marxist-Leninist-Maoist societies and it is the media, the police, the bureaucracy, the economy (private public partnership of a certain scurrilous kind), the technology, and more all brought to bear to coerce subject populations into submission. I submit this is what we have here under this so-called suddenly non-Marxist-Leninist PPP. Just a matter of degree and time.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall
