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(CMC) A University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer is warning against the rise of the businessman-politician in the Caribbean identifying St. Lucia Prime Minister Allen Chastanet and U.S. President Donald Trump as examples of why businessmen as politicians are bad for society.<\/p>

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Head of the Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work at the UWI Cave Hill Campus in Barbados , Dr. Tennyson S.D. Joseph, said that the region should regard the development as \u201ca new window for the re-emergence of the left\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, his theory was rejected out of hand by St. Clair Leacock, a two-term elected Member of Parliament, businessman and vice-president of the right-wing opposition New Democratic Party, who attended the public lecture on the topic \u201c\u2018Any Cook Can Govern?\u2019: Plato, Donald Trump, and the rise of Caribbean Businessmen Politicians\u201d.<\/p>

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Dr. Tennyson Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the lecture, Joseph, who unsuccessfully contested the 2006 general election in St. Lucia against Chastanet\u2019s United Workers Party (UWP), rejected 20th<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0century Trinidadian intellectual CLR James\u2019 theory that any ordinary person can become a leader and argued instead in support for Greek philosopher Plato\u2019s view that business people should not be political leaders.<\/p>

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\u201cThere is much evidence in the politics of the USA, the Caribbean and elsewhere that the election of persons with business experience, and the election of persons who fail to understand that political leadership requires a specific nobility of character, has compounded, rather than resolved the challenges of governance or development.\u00a0 It is clear that not any cook can govern,\u201d Joseph told the audience attending the second in a series of lecturers organised by the UWI Open Campus, and LegalEase SVG Inc.<\/p>\n

Joseph said he was moved to think about the specific questions that he addressed in the lecture when in April 2016, \u201can untried and untested son of a St. Lucian businessman, Allen Chastanet, emerged as Prime Minister of St. Lucia after successfully wresting power from Dr. Kenny Anthony\u201d.<\/p>

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Joseph sort to present Chastanet as an incompetent leader and showed a news clipping of the prime minister experiencing great difficulties piloting a bill through the nation\u2019s national assembly.<\/p>\n

He further said that among \u201cthe clearest examples of his narrow association of politics\u201d was Chastanet\u2019s decision to contract a private accounting firm to prepare St. Lucia\u2019s 2017 budget.<\/p>

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Joseph further said that the prime minister justified the decision on the basis that the public sector had limited knowledge of new and modern approaches to taxation.<\/p>

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\u201cWhatever the explanation, this begs the question of the appropriateness of conceding such wide swathes of public responsibility to a private firm to determine the revenue and expenditure priorities of a democratically elected government.\u00a0 Further, whilst an elected government would be guided by notions of public accountability, a privately contracted accounting firm is not obligated to be informed by similar considerations,\u201d Joseph said.<\/p>\n

Joseph, who confirmed that he had work as Anthony\u2019s political attach\u00e9 between 2000 and 2003, said that on sober reflection \u201cboth Chastanet and Trump\u2019s victories were the result of the same architectonic structural and ideological issues reflecting themselves in contemporary early Twenty-first century politics\u201d.<\/p>\n

Joseph said that both the St. Lucia and United States elections were fought on the basis of \u201can electorate frustrated with established politics, with voters opting to vote for \u2018something new\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n

He further posited that on the basis of the ideological hegemony of neo-liberalism, both the St. Lucian and U.S. electors assumed that their countries\u2019 challenges could be resolved by business persons rather than by so-called \u201cprofessional politicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, since the elections both countries have experienced \u2018disnormative\u2019 political developments largely arising out of the political inexperience and the crude application of the ideological \u201cbusiness-oriented\u201d concerns of the respective leaders, but these failures themselves are symptomatic of deeper crises confronting capitalist democracies in the present and are manifesting themselves most clearly as failures of leadership,\u201d Joseph said.<\/p>\n

Regarding the future, the UWI lecturer said that he believes that the current moment calls for \u201ca more heightened degree of political activity from the historically progressive social democratic forces of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe present moment, in contrast, is one of both of optimism and pessimism.\u00a0 The pessimism lies in the concrete reality of the actual takeover of our politics by the business class and represents a moment of triumph of neo-liberalism in which its theoretical claims are being backed up by political victories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dialectally, however, Joseph said, the moment presents itself as a simultaneous moment of collapse and defeat of neo-liberalism, noting German philosopher Friedrich Hegel\u2019s reminder that the highest stage at which something can reach, is the stage at which it begins to perish.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are also informed that something \u2014 an idea a social formation or an institutional principle \u2014 can only be said to reach its highest stage when all its principles are taken for granted.\u00a0 The full negative effects of capitalism had always been mediated by its social veil in which political power was transferred into the hands of the non-bourgeois technical managerial class.<\/p>\n

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St. Clair Leacock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHowever, when, as in the present moment, the bourgeoisie seeks to govern directly without the mediation of the technical managerial middle class, we are indeed in the highest stage prior to the moment of collapse,\u201d Joseph argued.<\/p>\n

He said that there are myriad signs to suggest that Trumps moment of victory, coincides with the moment of the collapse of the United States\u2019 capitalist world leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilarly, the emergence of the CEO politician in the Caribbean is coming after several decades of crisis of post-colonial development when the independence project appears to have lost its steam and has entered crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cChastanet and the business class represent the symptom and not the solution to that crisis.\u00a0 For the last four decades Caribbean social democracy has been beaten back and lost its voice.\u00a0 My message to the Vincentian and Caribbean progressive forces, is that we should see the moment, not as one of defeat, but as the opening of a new window for the re-emergence of the left, as the business politicians demonstrate concretely that they cannot resolve a crisis which was caused by the very class to which they belong.\u00a0 It is now time for the left to re-emerge,\u201d Joseph said.<\/p>\n

But, speaking in the open forum, Leacock told Joseph that he rejects all his conclusions \u201ctotally out of hand as an absence of serious political science\u201d.<\/p>\n

Leacock told Joseph that he found great difficulty \u201cfinding the triangulation\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe expansive detail on St. Lucia\u2019s situation, unfortunate, regrettable \u2014 Chastanet\u2019s challenges, I am not here to defend or promote \u2014 but it is difficult for me to accept that the St. Lucian experience finds a generalisation in Caribbean politics or international politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leacock told Joseph that he found his treatment of leadership to be \u201cvery shabby and totally absent of academic research. It is different for me to find how you can ground that. I don\u2019t find the triangulation that should be present and the conclusions are very, very narrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Joseph said that Leacock gave \u201can emotive response\u201d to the lecture and not \u201can intellectual critique of it\u201d.<\/p>\n

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