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'How Morals Influence If You're Liberal or Conservative' (U.S. video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxoKi1zOns0

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Are your political views based on facts or your morals? What makes a libertarian tick? Peter Ditto explains how morals shape our worldview.UC Irvine Professor Peter Ditto studies human judgment and decision-making. Ditto is fascinated by biases and "motivated reasoning," where people's beliefs and morals influence their interpretation of facts.Ditto started in health psychology but soon found an even richer trove of human biases: American politics, where liberals and conservatives seem to operate on completely different sets of facts.Ditto's research finds that liberals and conservatives are easy to characterize based on their moral beliefs, but where do libertarians fit in?Learn more about Peter Ditto's work on morals and politics:- When it comes to politics, you're not as rational as you think: http://bit.ly/1QWLOSe- How do your morals compare with others? Find out at http://www.yourmorals.org/

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Anyone any idea why the issues available are only those 1930-1945 and 2000-present?http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/?sf=DWMSIs it a bit like the Daily Mail holding back their issues about the BUF?I did a search for "Stalin" on the Morning Star / Daily Worker archive and there were a few results.

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Yes Elon Musk is another Peter Joseph, or the 21st Century version of the 20th century's Buckminster Fuller or the 19th century's Edward Bellamy. "Emancipation will be by the emancipation of technological development (not class struggle)" etc.Engels did the best take down of this as a political ideology.

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Well it looks like it may be achieved in reality for freight as a result of 'free trade' or a 'communist China' if you read the Morning Star (lol).Saying 'imagine what that could mean' all smacks to me of Edward Bellamy's utopian visions, yes I could commute to Shanghai on a Monday morning to be exploited to work there instead of here. Anyway here's an excerpt from Wikipedia;

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When pneumatic tubes first came into use in the 19th century, they symbolized technological progress and it was imagined that they would be common in the future. Jules Verne's Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863) includes suspended pneumatic tube trains that stretch across the oceans. Albert Robida's The Twentieth Century (1882) describes a 1950s Paris where tube trains have replaced railways, pneumatic mail is ubiquitous, and catering companies compete to deliver meals on tap to people's homes through pneumatic tubes. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) envisions the world of 2000 as interlinked with tubes for delivering goods,[22] while Michel Verne's An Express of the Future (1888) questions the sensibility of a transatlantic pneumatic subway.

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Another onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-McIdVuY88

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Just uploaded to the audio section here is a talk by Barltrop in which he answers a question along these lines in Part 2 at 17 minutes 26 seconds in.

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'Our appeal is not and never has been a humanitarian one. We stand for … the material interests of the working class. When I say that war is an effect of capitalism, the condemnation of war is not a humanitarian one, the condemnation of war is an effect – a pure and simple kind of thing – it is not in the interest of the working class to get killed in millions …'

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Vin wrote:

I think the article about Bowie is a waste of space and is an indication of the overinfluence of one member in the party.  The SSPC should not have published it. I can think of a lot more important issues than a dead self confessed fascist musician.I think the EC should comment. And I don't understand why we have an article on Jimmy fucking Hill.Is  there is an article on the Doctor's strike?We wonder what is wrong with the party

Hear hear.

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Jacobin on personal possessions under socialismhttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/socialism-marxism-private-property-person-lennon-imagine-kenny-loggins/

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If you understand the cause of imperialism and war then forward your Form A for admission to membership to us.

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Vin wrote:

There are a group of videos on youtube by Comrade Hardy.Is there any reference to them on oure sites? Because they are very goodin content and it may be possible to clean them up if need bePlease pardon my ignorance if this has already been sorted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upoHgSGdifA

I just found the old topic from April 2014 on thishttp://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/world-socialist-movement/video-edgar-hardcastle

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There is also Rule 7 which states 'The Branch shall be the unit of organisation.'

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http://socialistunity.com/20769-2/

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is Sanders the next Tsipiras?

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good pr from berniehttp://www.snopes.com/bernie-sanders-unpaid-interns/

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Isn't it a case, as far as you are concerned, of the less 'materialism' the better the theory?

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