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Marx rejected bourgeois morality in favor of an ethics of human emancipation, says Phil Gasper ACCORDING TO the German socialist and philosopher Karl Vörlander writing in the early twentieth century, “The moment anyone started to talk to Marx about morality, he would...
The debate over the Green Economy rages on next month in Rio de Janeiro, at the International Society for Ecological Economics meetings, the Cupulo dos Povos alternative people’s summit, and the UN’s Rio+20 Earth Summit. Proponents and critics of ‘green growth’...
Jackson Mthembu says party wants picture removed from gallery and news websites The African National Congress is extremely disturbed and outraged by the distasteful and indecent manner in which Brett Murray and the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg is displaying the...
ANC president's founding affidavit in interdict application against Brett Murray portrait (May 18) IN THE SOUTH GAUTENG HIGH COURT JOHANNESBURG (REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA) CASE NUMBER: 17978/2012 In the matter between: JACOB GEDLEYIHLEKISA ZUMA - First Applicant...
Pearl Mathibela says Brett Murray's painting was disrespectful both to Zuma and the nation Nation building is being undermined, not the Constitution As the furore over the much-publicised (and now defaced) "painting" of one Brett Murray erupted, my initial reaction...
The fundamental market theory of equilibrium, in economics, can be compared to notions of justice conceived in other disciplines, such as electoral democracy and politics. After centuries of trading trials and wars, we were told by leading governments (who may be...
Under capitalism it is “profitable” to scar the precious mountains to retrieve coal in small seams. There is a valuable exchange happening on the Kasama website site. I won’t try to encapsulate it here, but want to respond to it. I think there are some sharp...
Over the past eighteen months there have been enough “Kaffir” slips of the tongue, from different echelons of White society, to prove that racism is alive and well and living on the tips of the tongues of most White South Africans. In many cases all it takes is a bit...
The People’s Dialogue, a network representing millions of African and Latin Americans organised in movements of rural women, small scale farmers, peasants, workers, feminist and research formations, is mindful that the discussion on the green economy takes place at...