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The ethical work of Karl Marx Comments Off on The ethical work of Karl Marx 1. If ethics is taken to be, on the one hand, the negation of bourgeois ideology and morality and, on the other, as the intellectual and practical anticipation of the humanist values which are to govern relations among individuals in a world community freed from today’s dominant alienating institutions (economic, political, ideological, etc.), then the work of Karl Marx may consequently be understood as an  ethical...

Laxity in anti-corona SOPs observance: The missing link Sunday December 20 2020 People go about their businesses in downtown Kampala with little regard for anti-Covid-19 measures in August. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA. Summary A team of scientists was set up to guide the President and the public on all aspects of the Covid -19 pandemic, no team of ‘non-scientists’ was assembled. That created a void, especially in the SOPs implementation process, argues Prof Mukwanason A. Hyuha. Read on...  Adve...

Trump: Leaving World Politics Worse Than He Met It, By Owei Lakemfa 5 min read Not satisfied with re-drawing the map of the Middle East, Trump this week decided to redraw the map of Africa by inserting the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, also known as Western Sahara, into Morocco. In this, the out-going American president, in the manner of colonialists and imperialists, seeks to reduce the member countries of the African Union (AU) from 55 to 54. President Donald Trump is a j...

Vanguard News Trump: Leaving world politics worse than he met it On By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT Donald Trump is a joke carried too far. He is a problem child the United States imposed on the universe. There is an African saying that if you give birth to a problem child, it is your responsibility to keep such child in check. Americans formally performed that onerous responsibility this Monday when its Electoral College voted 306-232 for Joe Biden as the incoming American President. In other words...

The Grinch who stole happiness SHARE His Highness of Pessimism, Arthur Schopenhauer Don’t get your hopes up “In the Presence of Schopenhauer,” by Michel Houellebecq (Polity Press) Every volume by Arthur Schopenhauer, and in particular “The World as Will and Representation,” should carry a warning label: Not to be read before the age of 30, especially by those maintaining a “Romantic” outlook on life. Why? because the German philosopher (1788-1860) isn’t out to bolster our illu...