Using Cuba To Defend Nkrumahism Is Laughable

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Kowadis 10 years ago

Please just answer this: was the creation of the "amazing INTERNET" a Capitalist venture?

Please just answer this: was the creation of the "amazing INTERNET" a Capitalist venture?
ADJOA WANGARA 10 years ago

Philip Kobina Baidoo jnr. save your precious on Francis Kwarteng, the guy is is nothing but a nonentity bragart who makes senseless debates and try to pope his flat nose in every affair but has never contributed any useful ma ...
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Philip Kobina Baidoo jnr. save your precious on Francis Kwarteng, the guy is is nothing but a nonentity bragart who makes senseless debates and try to pope his flat nose in every affair but has never contributed any useful material on any stage. Kwarteng is simply an idiot just like J.K. Bokor.
DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 10 years ago

What is, "Try to pope his flat nose into every affair?" Where is your theory of punctuation?
Mr. Adwoa Wangara, when can you ever write a single correct sentence?

What is, "Try to pope his flat nose into every affair?" Where is your theory of punctuation?
Mr. Adwoa Wangara, when can you ever write a single correct sentence?
Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

Was the huge donation from John D Rockefeller that help build University of Chicago a capitalist venture?
Think about that. Thank you.

Was the huge donation from John D Rockefeller that help build University of Chicago a capitalist venture?
Think about that. Thank you.
Sasabonsam 10 years ago

Ghana s problem is these so called socialist like Mr karteng. Through their ignorant they have brought Ghana to its kneels

Ghana s problem is these so called socialist like Mr karteng. Through their ignorant they have brought Ghana to its kneels
kwadwo. 10 years ago

Have at it , Francis.

Have at it , Francis.
Kwabena Akurang-Parry 10 years ago

Call it Communism, Socialism, Marxism, Nkrumahism, etc. Yes, there were fault lines and quicksands in Nkurmah's social, economic, and political developments, but Nkrumah's achievements remain evergreen and the best, while tho ...
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Call it Communism, Socialism, Marxism, Nkrumahism, etc. Yes, there were fault lines and quicksands in Nkurmah's social, economic, and political developments, but Nkrumah's achievements remain evergreen and the best, while those of the post-Nkrumah era are in seasons of toxic anomies. You misread Samia's worldview. It is not about replicating his father's 'Socialism." It is about excavating what was best in his father's slabs of policy and applying them. Long Live Nkrumah! Long Live the CPP
Kwabena Adubofo 10 years ago

Doc:

Any effort to educate this man is like putting a lipstick on a pig.

Doc:

Any effort to educate this man is like putting a lipstick on a pig.
Kwabena Yeboah 10 years ago

Whew! After three years of research and a long thesis, you have said absolutely nothing to educate your readers, certainly not me, except to display your vaunty and haughtier attitude.

I don't know where you grew up, and y ...
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Whew! After three years of research and a long thesis, you have said absolutely nothing to educate your readers, certainly not me, except to display your vaunty and haughtier attitude.

I don't know where you grew up, and your stage in life. But if you grew up in Ghana like me, and in stage in life like me, you will have a more balanced approach in analyzing Nkrumah's contribution to the development of present day Ghana. Nkrumah's "socialist" policies gave me and many of my contemporaries who grew up in the 60s & 70s a solid foundation to become persons of letters today, and I will not standby or take kindly to hot air from the uninformed about a man who gave it his all for the love of his country. Yes, Nkrumah made mistakes so did most people of his time. Didn't your capitalist friends bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki and destroyed millions of lives in Viet Nam? In your warped and degenerative mind, they were defending their way of life. Iraq is still simmering, fool.

Now let us look at economic systems you have derided in this garbage. I am sure you understand what GDP per capita means. You also understand it is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living. I am going to give you the rankings of the democratic socialism and your pet pee capitalism in 2013 by World Bank, CIA World Factbook, and United Nations: (DS denotes Democratic Socialism; MC denotes Market Capitalism)

World Bank RANK

Norway 4th (DM)
Denmark 9th (DM)
Sweden 10th (DM)
USA 13th (MC)
Canada 14th (MC)
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*Cuba 90th Socialism
Ghana 140th (MC)

CIA World Factbook RANK

Norway 5th (DS)
Denmark 10th (DS)
Sweden 12th (DS)
USA 14th (MC)
Canada 15th (MC)
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*Cuba 90th Socialism
Ghana 140th (MC)

United Nations RANK

Norway 4th (DS)
Sweden 8th (DS)
Denmark 9th (DS)
USA 12th (MC)
Canada 13th (MC)
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*Cuba 86th Socialism
Ghana 143th (MC)

* Without the embargo from the US and his allies, who knows what Cuba could have become with its brand of socialism.

These are unmitigated facts and should be the basis of your analysis. I am so disappointed it took a whole three years of your life to produce this garbage.
James 10 years ago

This is a porous article from an immature writer.I wonder if this idiot called Philip Kobina Baidoo has rejected the covert socialist free Medical Care offered to him and his young family in England.I am not surprised Philip ...
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This is a porous article from an immature writer.I wonder if this idiot called Philip Kobina Baidoo has rejected the covert socialist free Medical Care offered to him and his young family in England.I am not surprised Philip Kobina Baidoo has now joined the League of Quasi Intellectuals(LQI) on Ghanaweb.Members of this group are conceited,shallow-minded,biased and also lack objectivity and candour.

Kwame 10 years ago

Capitalism was a mere existence of error from its birth. Capitalism has not free the wage slave, but have rather made the thrall with which serfdom imprison him more stronger. From the classes of dialectics a biological body ...
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Capitalism was a mere existence of error from its birth. Capitalism has not free the wage slave, but have rather made the thrall with which serfdom imprison him more stronger. From the classes of dialectics a biological body that is infested with a disease does all it has at its disposal to free itself of that disease or virus.
It is therefore a biological thing that does not realize, even instinctive that it is infested with a virus that goes into extinction.
The dialectical nature of communism, therefore socialism is to prevent and control infection in society, breed by man's egoism to enslave his brother and appropriate both his labour and natural resources as the case is with developing neo-colonial countries and the imperialist world.
During the time of Kwame Nkrumah Ghanaians were masters in their own home and survey whatever they have.
One of the basic necessities of a person work was guaranteed the right of every Ghanaian during that time, so was the right to education, health and even free and pure tap water. In dialectics and in any science, since science is dialectics you do not compare a diseased body to another diseased body. Thus in medicine doctors are thought to know the nature of a healthy heart and compare it with a diseased one. Philip Kwabena Baidoo Jnr. that is the reason why we shall continue to compare Russian socialism and capitalism as well as the socioeconomic life of Cuba a socialist state to that of other Caribbean nations.
On industrialization, education and health index Cuba a country with sanctions applied to her by the U.S. and her allies is ahead of her on the last two. It is a fact that U.S.citizens go to Cuba for medication as well as post graduate medical training. Cuban doctors and specialist in all aspect of human endeavour are assisting many developing countries to resolve their socioeconomic problems.
For instance Ghana could resolve her energy problems if not that her capitalist development partners, who we rather refer to as underdevelopment partners are not putting spoke in her wheel to achieve that.
As a student in the then Soviet Union which was said to be hungry in 1981 my counterparts in West Berlin do not meet me with bread and coffee, rather they are so happy to receive my communist bread with thanks, but do not want to live under socialism.
It is a fact that the majority of soviet decedents said that socialism is better than capitalism, when even they are forced by their own misunderstanding of events then in the Soviet Union to migrate abroad. I happen to have two hours conversation with Dr. Andrei Sakharov on that matter and both of us came to the conclusion that socialism with its evils is better than capitalism, which the dialectics we say a healthy body with all its evils is better than a diseased one.
When the countries of Eastern Europe decided to have their yellow and velvet revolutions what followed was wars and economic collapse. The majority of the able body has to migrate to the west. The children thy left behind were exposed to various types of drugs my the democrats from the west. In Mongolia cow dung from the farms of the parents of children were canned and given to them to sniff and go high. It is also a fact that all the countries that produce cocaine and opium are friends of NATO.
On technology, the U.S. has to porch scientists from other countries to develop them for her. That is the pathetic sight of capitalism with the snakes it hatched coming home since 2001 to roost.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

James, if you follow my argument very closely, you will realise that my main concern is not the way the pie is distribution, but how it is made. If can can connect with what I have written you can rephrase your comments. Than ...
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James, if you follow my argument very closely, you will realise that my main concern is not the way the pie is distribution, but how it is made. If can can connect with what I have written you can rephrase your comments. Thank you.
Surosuo 10 years ago

So, this is how you write in "rapid response" without a "lengthy thesis":

" If can can connect with what I have written you can rephrase your comments. Thank you."

So, this is how you write in "rapid response" without a "lengthy thesis":

" If can can connect with what I have written you can rephrase your comments. Thank you."
Asuo 10 years ago

What is your point?

What is your point?
Kowadis 10 years ago

What does "if CAN CAN connect..." mean?

Can you honestly translate the "quote"?

R U reading-impaired, Asuo?

What does "if CAN CAN connect..." mean?

Can you honestly translate the "quote"?

R U reading-impaired, Asuo?
Surosuo 10 years ago

Tweaaaa!

Tweaaaa!
J .Thompson 10 years ago

"About twenty years ago,to make an international phone call in Ghana,you have to go to P&T office to book an appointment and come back probably a day or two to make your call."
The above statement is a blatant lie.Friends an ...
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"About twenty years ago,to make an international phone call in Ghana,you have to go to P&T office to book an appointment and come back probably a day or two to make your call."
The above statement is a blatant lie.Friends and relatives called me directly from Ghana as far back as 1991.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

Of course those who had telephones in their homes could do that. I am talking about the ordinary man on the street who did not have access to such facility, but at the mercy of P&T. I don't peddle lies; if you have anyone who ...
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Of course those who had telephones in their homes could do that. I am talking about the ordinary man on the street who did not have access to such facility, but at the mercy of P&T. I don't peddle lies; if you have anyone who lived in Ghana around 1991 without access to the luxury you think was available to everyone, you will shout what I wrote from the roof tops.
Thank you.
Robert Okine 10 years ago

Baidoo's porous and misleading article is not worth reading.In his own words "Capitalism does not work along side dishonesty and stupid ideology like Racism".I wonder if he knows how racist and capitalist United States explo ...
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Baidoo's porous and misleading article is not worth reading.In his own words "Capitalism does not work along side dishonesty and stupid ideology like Racism".I wonder if he knows how racist and capitalist United States exploited and suppressed African slaves for hundreds of years.This guy is certainly no match to the more advanced and knowleadgeable Francis Kwarteng.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

I only managed to complete this long piece now and so can't comment comprehensively.

I was struck by the number of lies and distortions in Phillip's diatribe too. That's not the only lie. Even claiming that deregulation of ...
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I only managed to complete this long piece now and so can't comment comprehensively.

I was struck by the number of lies and distortions in Phillip's diatribe too. That's not the only lie. Even claiming that deregulation of the telephone system happened during K4s era is a blatant lie. Telecoms research was one of the subject in our State Building Seminar Group and so I knew quite a lot abt the sector in Ghana and some other African countries in the '90s. Then I got involved commercially. I have just behind me a newsprint in Norwegian, of course, detailing how that Norwegian sold his TV station in order to supply the capital to start what MTN took over with those Lebanee blokes. And we know of how Tsatsu Tsikata also started one mobile company, don't we? All those things preceded the K4 regime.

Overall, the piece is more of an ad hominem attack on Francis rather than debunking what he wrote. It is got nothing to do with the reality of how Western countries developed with the wide scope for private plunder of other nations and people which allowed Western filibusters to accumulate capital beyond anything imaginable in the past during the mercantilist period of the slave trade and exploitation of the free labour of some and then direct colonisation -imperialism - which provides the life blood for the vampire capitalist to survive on. Marx recognised this in his life time and revised his earlier views in the Critique of the Gotha Programme. Lenin further expanded on this with his Imperialism: The Last Stage of Capitalism. And then Nkrumah capped it his contribution with his book Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. Just imagine Ghana colonising Nigeria alone and passing laws to loot their resources, as some Western nations did, with the loot spreading to even those which didn't. Of course, the Monroe Doctrine ensured that the US had its own Latin American backyard to exploit. Even that, the state played significant direct roles in their devt. That's why Francis referred to the TVA project that built the Hoover Dam and regenerated whole stretch of the US private capital had run down into medieval existence.

All the Asian Tigers have reached where they are now thanks to very active state intervention and participation in the economy. Even setting up state banks to make loans to businesses in certain sectors is direct intervention. The state decides and allocate scarce credit resources, directing it to where it wants. Without that that kind of state support in the recent credit crunch in the West, there would have been a major depression equal to that of the 1930s or worse!

Anyway, this is just for the records. All we want is to Bring Back the State In, just as others are doing and scholars like Peter Evans, D. Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol. et all had argued. Had they been listened to, there would have been no Credit Crunch!

Andy-K

Fred Amoah 10 years ago

I have found a lot of contradictions lies and half-truths in this senseless and meaningless article.Apparently,this ignorant,narrow-minded,misinformed and disinformed moron called BAIDOO is one of the conceited "babies" on th ...
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I have found a lot of contradictions lies and half-truths in this senseless and meaningless article.Apparently,this ignorant,narrow-minded,misinformed and disinformed moron called BAIDOO is one of the conceited "babies" on this forum who lack in-depth knowledge of African politics with special reference to Africa's man of the millineum,the great Kwame Nkrumah.His defence and praising of American Capitalism which thrived for hundreds of years on the exploitation and suppression of African slaves is rather patheic. Francis Kwarteng is on a much higher level.
PhiIip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

This is the sort of mentality that will keep us poor till thy kingdom come. Do you know Russians still venerate Lenin?

This is the sort of mentality that will keep us poor till thy kingdom come. Do you know Russians still venerate Lenin?
Frank Eshun 10 years ago

Kwasea Baidoo,why don't you leave Britain and live permanently in Ghana with your family in order to experience and appreciate the true African Capitalism.Living in capitalist Britain and enjoying socialist benefits simultane ...
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Kwasea Baidoo,why don't you leave Britain and live permanently in Ghana with your family in order to experience and appreciate the true African Capitalism.Living in capitalist Britain and enjoying socialist benefits simultaneously,while condemning SOCIALIM makes it imperative that you rather need psychiatric treatment and not Kwarteng.
James Obeng 10 years ago

SOCIALISM

SOCIALISM
PhiIip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

Are they two persons in one?

Are they two persons in one?
James Obeng 10 years ago

I detected that the eight letter "S" in the word SOCIALISM as stated in Frank's response was missing.I just came in to make the correction.What is more important is to respond to the various negative comments I am reading ab ...
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I detected that the eight letter "S" in the word SOCIALISM as stated in Frank's response was missing.I just came in to make the correction.What is more important is to respond to the various negative comments I am reading about you now.
Frank Eshun 10 years ago

Thanks for the correction.

Thanks for the correction.
shaggy 10 years ago

I have responded to those that are worth responding to; the rest does not warrant the bother.
Thank you

I have responded to those that are worth responding to; the rest does not warrant the bother.
Thank you
KKO 10 years ago

GDP (PURCHASING POWER PARITY)

1

United States

$ 16,720,000,000,000

2013 est.

2 European Union
$ 15,850,000,000,000 2013 est.

3 China
$ 13,390,000,000,000 2013 est.

4 India
$ 4,990,000,000,0 ...
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GDP (PURCHASING POWER PARITY)

1

United States

$ 16,720,000,000,000

2013 est.

2 European Union
$ 15,850,000,000,000 2013 est.

3 China
$ 13,390,000,000,000 2013 est.

4 India
$ 4,990,000,000,000 2013 est.

5 Japan
$ 4,729,000,000,000 2013 est.

6 Germany
$ 3,227,000,000,000 2013 est.

7 Russia
$ 2,553,000,000,000 2013 est.

8 Brazil
$ 2,416,000,000,000 2013 est.

9 United Kingdom
$ 2,387,000,000,000 2013 est.

10 France
$ 2,276,000,000,000 2013 est.

11 Mexico
$ 1,845,000,000,000 2013 est.

78 Ghana
$ 90,410,000,000 2013 est.

Lies, damned lies and statistics! Anyone can use statistics to tell any stories they want.

Source: Same CIA World Factbook. This time based on purchasing power and Cuba doesn’t even feature here. I had the opportunity to work at several o our socialist establishments, including the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, and without exception, none was set up to progress, just jobs for the boys, square pegs in round holes, everyone of them! What did any of them achieve? Which of them ever benefited the average Ghanaian?
Has anyone ever bothered to find out why Asutsuare or Komenda Sugar Factory collapsed? But for socialist jealousy Adra Transport, Poku Transport, Biney Shipping , Kowus Motors, King of Kings, Siaw Group of Companies, Appenteng’s Group, etc would be challenging multinational companies around the world.
The legacies of Lee Kuang Yew, Houphuet Boingy, Kenyatta, Suharto, still live on. Why is that Kwame Nkrumah’s CPP can’t even win local council elections in Ghana? Common be real!
Kwabena Yeboah 10 years ago

I am heart-broken. It is true, ignorance is bliss and until our dear country wages war against crass ignorance and stupidity, I might add, we can kiss economic development goodbye.

You pull these numbers without understand ...
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I am heart-broken. It is true, ignorance is bliss and until our dear country wages war against crass ignorance and stupidity, I might add, we can kiss economic development goodbye.

You pull these numbers without understanding what they mean - this is stupidity in its worse form. I am wondering whether to leave you to wallow in your backwardness or take this opportunity to educate you on the difference between GDP and GDP (PPP). Will it be worthwhile to put pearls in pigs' pen? Naaah! I will leave you alone.

Kwadwo 10 years ago

Kwabena, are Ghanaians more educated than Nigerians? I donot have the data, but I can safely argue that inspite of not having Nkrumah to build their educational system, they are at par with us educationally. You should rather ...
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Kwabena, are Ghanaians more educated than Nigerians? I donot have the data, but I can safely argue that inspite of not having Nkrumah to build their educational system, they are at par with us educationally. You should rather thank the cocoa farmers who provided the wealth for Nkrumah to build all those schools albeit most of their children never benefited from the cocoa scholarships.
Please provide us with evidence that we will be wallowing in ignorance and uneducated without the advent of Nkrumahism?
To me, Nkrumah did good, but he was a demagogue who everything to accomplish was he thought was right and political. The slogan, "seek yee the political kingdom...",is illustrative of my point. In the end, he was kicked out by democratic forces. I celebrate people like Baidoo for their courage in taking a critical look at Nkrumah and we should not insult him. It will be a travesty if we continue to repeat that " Nkrumah does no wrong"
Kwabena Yeboah 10 years ago

Do you describe Nkrumah as a demagogue? I do not think so - you can call him whatever name you want but not a demagogue.

What I have noticed about my people is that we lack cognitive perspective - there is a strong analy ...
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Do you describe Nkrumah as a demagogue? I do not think so - you can call him whatever name you want but not a demagogue.

What I have noticed about my people is that we lack cognitive perspective - there is a strong analytical deficit in our society and that is our achilles heel. Africans are failing because we do not have the knack for solving problems, and more dangerously we are caught up in this vortex of tribal and partisan politics, which actually does no good to anybody. But to say you celebrate people like Baidoo for their courage in taking a critical look at Nkrumah is very disturbing and in fact alarming.

You see, in philosophy there is ethical doctrine that holds that only what is pleasant or has pleasant consequences is intrinsically good. I see a lot of Ghanaians, including Baidoo in this purview. They look at a system like capitalism and because it is pleasant to the eye or has pleasant consequences, they eliminate other suitors and extol the virtue of their desired system. It is called hedonism or hedonistic. There are many economies that are switching to mixed economies now, and some have been mixed for years, e.g., Canada, Britain, etc. because of the vagaries of capitalism. So imagine you put a person like Baidoo in charge of government, guess what he will do.

I will give you an example, the instability of Ghana's cedi which has caused so much trouble for our economy can be put squarely at the foot of Bawumia under Kufuor in 2007. What Ghanaians do not know is a lot of dollars in Ghana's foreign reserve that Bawumia and Wampa have pumped in the bail out the cedi for the useless redenonomination exercise. These guys got up one day and felt that it will be nice to shave off some zeros of the cedi, and then went ahead and pegged the cedi to the dollar without any consideration for macroeconomics fundamentals. This is the kind of money managers we have at the bank as their behaviour on the job reflect exactly ethical doctrine that holds that only what is pleasant or has pleasant consequences is intrinsically good.

Now let me answer your question. Nigerians came to Ghana in droves in the 60s because of Nkrumah's fee-free compulsory education of which I was a proud beneficially. Many Nigerians made Ghana their permanent home and took advantage of Ghana's fee free compulsory education - It was against the law not to enroll your children in school. At that time Ghana was far ahead of Nigeria in education and academic achievement. Ghana had renowned intellectuals such as Kwagyir Aggrey, JB Danquah, Busia, Kingsley Hayford Addo, and a whole lot of them. This is not to say the names I have mentioned got their education through Nkrumah's policy, but the fact of the matter is Nigerians came to Ghana in the 70s to recruit Ghanaian teachers. I was teaching at Accra Academy at the time, but a lot of my colleagues joined the band wagon and left. The Nigerian government were offering the Ghanaian expats housing and cars as an enticement. During the same period, Liberia and Sierra Leone governments were also in Ghana recruiting our teachers.

I must go, but I will leave you with this; I am who I am today because of Nkrumah's educational policy. There is no way I could have got out of the wretched and hopeless environment of my youth in the small village to teach in a prestigious in North America.
jt 10 years ago

Phillip, I know one thing is true in this world we live today, people think, like, reason, see, understand, do, things differently and for one to think that one is good for all has a problem.

Phillip, I know one thing is true in this world we live today, people think, like, reason, see, understand, do, things differently and for one to think that one is good for all has a problem.
GHANABA 10 years ago

"Anybody who believes in capitalism will not enslave his fellow being"[sic].The numerous slave owners in the West Indies,Brazil and North America were commies....I presume! The wealthy plantation owners in the south of USA,Br ...
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"Anybody who believes in capitalism will not enslave his fellow being"[sic].The numerous slave owners in the West Indies,Brazil and North America were commies....I presume! The wealthy plantation owners in the south of USA,Brazil,West Indies engaged in their sub human activities for fair equity of the profits.FYI,Thomas walker,ancestor of George Bush, was a the most notorious capitalist slave trader from Baltimore who pillaged West Africa for slaves in the 1770s.The Bushes"s family are reaping the rewards of his capitalist adventures 300 years on.It is utter nonsense to say the capitalist north help abolish slavery in the agricultural south.They were all in it.
PhiIip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

It is not my rules. It's because capitalism was named by its enemies that's why you were able to come to that conclusion. What you referred to in Brazil, West Indies and USA were all mercantilism and not capitalism. Besides, ...
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It is not my rules. It's because capitalism was named by its enemies that's why you were able to come to that conclusion. What you referred to in Brazil, West Indies and USA were all mercantilism and not capitalism. Besides, unless you want to tell me that the American civil didn't happen and it was fought over something else other than slavery. Thank you.
GHANABA 10 years ago

Your "compartmentalized" answer strikes me as risible.Thanks.

Your "compartmentalized" answer strikes me as risible.Thanks.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

You do not have any argument to counter what I have said, so you using a cheap swipe. That is not a healthy debate. You might find it laughable, but you did not dislodge it with a better one.
Thanks

You do not have any argument to counter what I have said, so you using a cheap swipe. That is not a healthy debate. You might find it laughable, but you did not dislodge it with a better one.
Thanks
GHANABA 10 years ago

You only see good things in capitalism, so what is the point.You do not see the contradictions in your attempt to defend the "benign capitalism".

You only see good things in capitalism, so what is the point.You do not see the contradictions in your attempt to defend the "benign capitalism".
Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

Maybe, you did not read my previous piece. I did make it categorically clear that capitalism is not perfect. It is socialism that claims the establishment of heaven on earth, so the burden of proof is their cup of tea.

Maybe, you did not read my previous piece. I did make it categorically clear that capitalism is not perfect. It is socialism that claims the establishment of heaven on earth, so the burden of proof is their cup of tea.
SENDERO 10 years ago

It is not always that I read such a destruction of the claptrap that is communism.

Fantastic piece!!

It is not always that I read such a destruction of the claptrap that is communism.

Fantastic piece!!
GHANABA 10 years ago

Kobina,I have always spared a bit of my time to read your articles.I think Gold Coast cum Ghana practised either mercantillism or capitalism from 1874 to 1957.Of course,you will be daft to say capitalism is perfect.On a serio ...
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Kobina,I have always spared a bit of my time to read your articles.I think Gold Coast cum Ghana practised either mercantillism or capitalism from 1874 to 1957.Of course,you will be daft to say capitalism is perfect.On a serious note,BBC radio..world service will feature a Ghanaian scientist on Sunday.Ashittey Ollennu.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

Thanks, I will make a date.

Thanks, I will make a date.
Mansa ba payin 10 years ago

No one will use Cuba To Defend Nkrumahism. No one.

It's rather mischievous on your part to get attention by using this title for your article.

Please read carefully what the sanctions against Cuba were; and still are.
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No one will use Cuba To Defend Nkrumahism. No one.

It's rather mischievous on your part to get attention by using this title for your article.

Please read carefully what the sanctions against Cuba were; and still are.

Balance that with the fact that Cuba helped tremendously with events in Angola, for instance.

Now, as a Ghanaian, after you have found out the effects of the economic sanctions on the Cubans, ask yourself how Cuba can send doctors to Ghana.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

My dear Mansa, kindly get a good book on 20th century geopolitics and you will probably comprehend the pickle Castro got his country into. Thank you.

My dear Mansa, kindly get a good book on 20th century geopolitics and you will probably comprehend the pickle Castro got his country into. Thank you.
Yaw Boafo 10 years ago

I have read the first two paragraphs and I am bored!!

You have too much time on your hands

I have read the first two paragraphs and I am bored!!

You have too much time on your hands
James Obeng 10 years ago

Anybody who will blame Nkrumah for the construction of the Akosombo dam is certainly a crazy person.Who doesn't know the impact this single most important project has made on the lives of Ghanaians? It is obvious that the ign ...
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Anybody who will blame Nkrumah for the construction of the Akosombo dam is certainly a crazy person.Who doesn't know the impact this single most important project has made on the lives of Ghanaians? It is obvious that the ignorant and narrow-minded Baidoo does not even know that capitalist United States also owns the Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA).
Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

Oh please James, where did I write that? You have the right to insult me, because I wrote an article. On the other hand, you do not have the prerogative to put words in my mouth.
Thank you.

Oh please James, where did I write that? You have the right to insult me, because I wrote an article. On the other hand, you do not have the prerogative to put words in my mouth.
Thank you.
MMA 10 years ago

Baidoo, I think you need an editor to fix your writing. If you have a friend who's good in English, he or she can quickly correct the many petty errors you make in the language. One or two errors can be excused but not this m ...
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Baidoo, I think you need an editor to fix your writing. If you have a friend who's good in English, he or she can quickly correct the many petty errors you make in the language. One or two errors can be excused but not this many. Some of them are slips but others aren't. And if your friend is good, he could also show you a few places where you could make cuts and remove stuff that don't really contribute to your argument.

Often friends see mistakes that even the best of us can be blind to.
Jonas Ababio 10 years ago

After spewing lies,distortions and contradictions,the conceited and misinformed Baidoo has fled.Baidoo cannot stand the "heat".

After spewing lies,distortions and contradictions,the conceited and misinformed Baidoo has fled.Baidoo cannot stand the "heat".

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