The Sunday Stabroek’s editorial last Sunday, “Democratic values,” stated: “A more predictable viewpoint which he [Cheddi Jagan] never relinquished was that class in Guyana was more important than race, a somewhat tenuous assumption at best and plain inaccurate at worst.” In a letter in the same edition, Dr. Baytoram Ramharak writes: “Despite its obvious urgency, the PPP/C leadership will not willingly move to create an inclusive security and defence force for two reasons. One, Cheddi Jagan bequeathed the PPP/C with an original political sin, namely that politics in Guyana must be understood through the lens of class analysis, despite the primacy of race/ethnicity. This embedded Marxist paradigm reinforces the view that as the economy develops its trickled down effect will render ethnic politics obsolete. So why bother to frontally address the problem?”
