I doan know why Rodney is so worshipped. I get it. He fought against a dictatorship and made some good speeches. But he was still never a national figure. He was at heart a Black nationalist and a Marxist. That's not really the makings of the kind of man Guyana needed. What was he gonna do in office? Be truer to marxism/communism than Burnham?
Gotta agree that Rodney was a Black Nationalist but a South-South Third-Worldist socialist rather than the classic Soviet style or Maoist style socialist. He was more of a Black Power advocate for Blacks disadvantaged all over the world.
I wonder why Nehru was not concerned that the PPP was all for Rodney to be banished and the Committee of Inquiry never had the massalla in it.
You know politics really never came up during the protests. It was all about unifying to get rid of Burnham. It was know that Walter had socialist ideology, however...and frankly that was one of the reasons I liked him