Socialism and Democracy

Abstract

This is the complete text of the address which Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Premier of British Guiana, delivered to the National Press Club in Washington on October 24, 1961. In it, Dr. Jagan in effect challenges the United States ruling class to choose between providing aid to an outspokenly socialist regime in an underdeveloped country or exposing its protestations of devotion to democracy as sham and hypocrisy. —The Editors

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