This is part 14 of my series on the political trials and tribulations of the Mulattto/Creole class from 1950s onwards. I conclude the series today. The MCC in 2023 right up to the 2025 election will not form an alliance with any opposition party. That is why I used the term “political suicide.”

It is in fact political suicide because, as a social class in Guyana, it could only preserve its influence in politics by either birthing a political party of its own or nurturing one of the opposition parties. What is actually going on in the MCC is that, as a class force, it has finally given up on politics. The MCC felt it could best weaken the PPP government now and in the future by teaming up with other social entities rather than political parties.

It is for this reason since 2020, the MCC has stayed away from any formal or informal association with any political party. The MCC has changed its mode of operation. It feels it can be more effective against the PPP using the canopy of civil society groups and the Stabroek News (SN). I did not mention the Kaieteur News (KN). The paper is irrationally and dangerously anti-government, but class analysis would reveal that KN is not part of the MCC.

In fact, MCC personalities shun KN’s owner Glen Lall (and rightfully so). Not all anti-government outfits are part of the MCC. The PNC is not. The current leadership of the AFC is not. I will do a separate column, using class analysis to explain why KN is not part of the MCC. The MCC feels that civil society groups and SN are the best guarantee of weakening the PPP administration now and in the future. The MCC knows that the PPP is going to win national elections for at least the next 15 years.

The MCC feels that it has had enough marriages with political parties. After the failure of the APNU+AFC regime, the MCC has had enough of politics. This class will live on forever in Guyana, but it will not seek state power any longer. It is content to use civil society groups and SN to pressure successive PPP governments.
What the MCC will continue to do is to organise itself as a social, influential elitist group in Guyanese society. The MCC has always been an elitist class force and will continue to do so through its incestuous nature. Given the shape of our economy for the next four decades, the MCC will continue to be strongly pronounced in Guyana’s sociology.
The breeding ground for the next two generations of the MCC will be four private schools – School of the Nation, the American School in Prashad Nagar, Marian Academy and Mae’s. You take a look inside these schools and you can see clearly the next two generations of MCC.

A caveat is in order now. The MCC will not be augmented by the infusion of clear-complexioned Latin people in Guyana. In the next 20 years, there will be a substantial amount of white skinned people here. They will be from our South American neighbouring nations. But these immigrants will not be part of the MCC. Simple class analysis will tell you why.
The infusion of Venezuelans, Brazilians and Cubans into Guyana is not from the lower or middle classes of those countries. The Venezuelans that are in Guyana are lower working class folks and working class labourers. They will continue to be found in low-paying jobs and they will live ordinary working-class lives. The MCC will not accept them, but will see them as not culturally and intellectually endowed to be part of Guyana’s MCC.

What this white section of the Guyanese population will do is to integrate itself into working class life. We are already seeing that. Quite a large number of Venezuelans are friends with the labourers, carpenters, and street vendors that they are working along with. They are going to marry into the working class

Perhaps the best example to cite was the Portuguese folks in the 1960s who were from the working class in areas like Lodge, Charlestown, Kitty, Campbellville and from the rural areas, like Plaisance and up the East Coast and East Bank. Those working class Portuguese were never integrated into the mainstream life of the MCC. In fact, the two worlds never met. Working class Portuguese folks mixed with Africans and Indians and went to ordinary schools.
The MCC will not disappear after the general election of 2025. They are going to continue to mix among themselves and view the rest of society with cultural and racial contempt. But we should be relieved that they will be out of politics.