Defenders of election rigging: A Marxist and Freudian analysis
Kaieteur News – It’s been a year since the failure of the fraud designed and perpetrated by elements of the electoral commission and the PNC and the AFC. Nearly 99 percent of the global writings on the five-month trip to the Mephistophelean oceans depict PNC and AFC as the Draculean creatures and elements of the GECOM secretariat such as the Macbeth witches who shaped the evil.
While that is an accurate description, emphasis must always be placed on other dimensions that, when given intensive analytical treatment, reveal the encouragement given to the perpetrators by the quiet, subtle support of some class and ethnic elements in Guyana.
The curiosity will remain forever – what could and would have happened if these sections of Guyana’s class structure and ethnic anatomy had openly rejected rigging? Would the PNC and the AFC be psychologically exhausted so that the Faustian instincts would have died long before July?
The analysis that follows looks at two aspects of Guyanese society, although they voiced no open, open endorsement of the interference with the results, their silence was deliberate and Machiavellian driven by race and class preferences . In such an analysis, one column will not suffice so part two will.
The two sections are the light-skinned, Creole stratum and the middle class in general who opposed Burnham’s drift to socialism and who supported Walter Rodney and the WPA because they felt their class status was firmly better under the WPA regime than Burnham’s eccentric move towards a Black dictatorship. .
The dialect of class structure in Guyana is very interesting. It is not conceptually possible to separate these two aspects of Guyanese society and treat each one separately. The mulatto ethnic group managed to attract non-African Guyanese middle class and minor bourgeoisie. For example, many elite and light complexioned Portuguese Indians were part of the ethnic mulatto world that light complex Indians like Lionel Luckhoo and those of the United Police’s Peter D’Aguiar’s favor stand out. In the late 20th century, the light-hearted, middle-class Indian middle-class was basically led by people like Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine of the WPA.
Let’s start with the mixed ethnic group and apply Freud to them. Do you think it’s an overview that not one person volunteered to write an article in the weekly column, “In the Diaspora,” condemning the shenanigans that the PNC and AFC injected into the year-long no-confidence motion debate the five- month election dilemma carried?
The complex African middle class in Guyana has some tremendous Freudian spirits deeply embedded in their collective thinking. They do not want rural Indians, non-Christians, dark-skinned Indians and the People’s Progressive Party to govern Guyana. This mental horizon is not linked to ethnic hatred.
They neither hate nor hate rural and dark-skinned Indians or the PPP out of ethnic excellence. They simply feel deeply in their Freudian mind that such people are not suited to govern Creole West Indian societies and make business people better. It’s pretty obvious to Guyanese who follow the news where the mulatto people can be found – in women’s groups, the professional classes, high-intensity complex businesses, academia and a print media department.
This stratum engineered the merger between the PNC and WPA which was opposed only by the family of Walter Rodney and his brothers. They saw the marriage as one that could open up endless possibilities of permanent withdrawal of the PPP from government. Elements in the middle class in general and the mulatto group desperately pushed for ménage á trials between the PNC, WPA and AFC. It was not by accident that the AFC was initially funded by one of the wealthiest Guyanese families. It was also no accident that only Indians from Berbice opposed the APNU + AFC merger.
In fact, the defeat of the PPP in 2015 was then a class struggle where the mulatto group, the petty bourgeoisie and Portuguese and middle-class Indians joined the working-class PNC to tackle the PPP. This columnist supported the AFC. I responded to the excesses of Jagdeo / Ramotar presidencies and wanted a better for Guyana. We cannot see that APNU + AFC would have betrayed a working class struggle. I have apologized to my country many times for my part. I apologize hereby again.
Space is over, we’ll finish in another column but it’s important to note that paranoia stepped in when on March 3, it looked like the PPP was coming back to power. The mulatto class and the middle class were in general panic. Part two is forthcoming.
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of this newspaper.)