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Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened – War And Capitalism

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  • Kojo T 8 years ago

    Keynes and Nkrumah dealt with development .War is destruction .They are opposites .CAR and Burundi are at WAR because of GREED a capitalist phenomenon.Give us a break .We need SOLUTIONS

  • Dr. Otto 8 years ago

    Slowly but sure Baidoo is growing wrong horns like Kwarteng, Lungu, Kojo T. aka dirty Ewe and their co-equal idiots on Ghanaweb

  • GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

    drotto is an idiotic small-minded ethnic majimboist

  • Mahmoud 8 years ago

    Mr. Elvis, could you remember that Nkrumah used to incite workers to strike against the Whiteman but outlawed strikes in his regime when living conditions were genuinely difficult for them and said that strikes were unpatriot ...
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  • GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

    CLASSIC IMPERIALIST RUNNING DOG NANTWIBINI

  • amanfo 8 years ago

    Mr Mahmoud, I think you are getting everything so wrong when you try to downplay the complex character of the man Nkrumah. What will you prefer, a white capitalist using you to exploits and extorts your own resources and in t ...
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  • amanfo 8 years ago

    Dear Mr Mahmoud, I think you are getting the whole thing wrong when you downplay the complex character of Nkrumah. What will you prefer, a capitalist who uses you to exploit and extorts your resources at the expenseof progres ...
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  • amanfo 8 years ago

    Dear Sir Baidoo, good work but, don't lose sight of the fact that, Nkrumah played positive role in the Non Aligned Movement and declaration of his positive neutrality philosophy. Thank you

  • GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

    Mr Baidoo explain how it is then that the so called democratic capitalist constitutional monarchies of Europe found themselves engaged in the first great European tribal war aka WW1!! All the main protagonists that is: Britai ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Dear Gorgordutor,

    This is probably one of the dumbest articles I have read in my entire life.

    Anyway this is a topic for another day.

    Thanks.

  • Soomui 8 years ago

    Gorgordutor, can you please break down your articles into paragraphs the next tine? It makes it easier for readers to go through.

    All the same, your comment is a great contribution. I wish that it had been more comprehensi ...
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  • Soomui 8 years ago

    Sorry this is to complete the last paragraph;

    All wars in history have been about contending greed between two greedy parties or, by one legitimate party confronting the overtures of another greedy party to claim what is n ...
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  • GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

    Thank you massa, you are correct I shall do so going forward. I will be more careful with punctuation as well. "Mi tankwa da high pas" when I fire off a rebuttal, that is no excuse I stand penitent. Thanks bro. Stay up.

  • YAW 8 years ago

    As a pretender cum defender to the capitalist throne,Baidoo keeps lurching from the ridiculous to the most banal everyday.Your vain attempt to make capitalism look right and pure proves how gullible you are. I can only praise ...
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  • KING LOMOTEY 8 years ago

    GhanaWeb through the publication of the Can of Worm Series is fast becoming a platform for dissemination of incorrect and misleading information; dumbing down in the process anyone who attempts to read the Series. The edito ...
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  • Shabi 8 years ago

    Thanks Lomotey. But however, dont be fooled for one second that this random but concerted process of vulgarizing information and history - particularly of African history by a few Africans, is only or just the casual habit of ...
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  • Abra Kuma 8 years ago

    Oh, Shabi, Shabi,Shabi!

    You and Kasapreko III, you paint our pain so vividly, I cannot help but bawl...and after the tears....we continue to fight the visible/invisible hand that seeks to rob us of our dignity,our resourc ...
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  • YEN ARA ASASE NI. 8 years ago

    Truth be told, brother Shabi there is no shabbiness in any part of your being, and thus would be needed for restructuring Alternative African Futures.

  • Soomui 8 years ago

    Abra Kuma, GORGORDUTOR, Francis Kwarteng and YEN ARA ASASE NI, I am humbled by your appreciation and most importantly, the realization by fellow compatriots of the dire situation that confronts us, our children and our childr ...
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  • G. K. Berko 8 years ago

    Shabi, the argument is no more about Socialism and Capitalism, necessarily. It is more about the fundamental principles of equity and fairness in sharing what the Earth holds for all mankind.

    Whenever I encounter the like ...
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  • Ofori Patrick Ohenenana 8 years ago

    Found ur write up very revealing. Have learnt a lot though. But it still remains a fact that, the 'sins' of capitalism far outweighs its 'good'. We need a 'human face' of capitalism in order to save our world.

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    He Who Opens "Can of Worms" Before Time Kills Tree of Light! (2.0 Final)!


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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    READ: "...It is clear that war was part of the human condition to the extent that a philosopher devoted his thought processes, energy and time to write a thesis on the subject...which to me is much more important to the wellb ...
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