And from Jamaica’s People’s National Party (PNP) we adapted our party’s constitution, structure and organization.’ Clearly, Jagan showed no interest in naming the party the BG Communist Party nor adapting the party’s constitution to what obtained in that of the Communist Party of the USA. It is therefore plausible to conclude, that Jagan avoided dogmatism and pursued his beliefs based on Guyanese and West Indian realities. Infection by ideology of the anti-colonial, nationalist struggle led by Jagan was probably unavoidable. While Anglo-American imperialism plotted to get rid of Jagan, they could not agree how to do it. Whether liberal socialism can become a popular political ideology and concrete reality in Guyana is a hard question.
