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Article: Crowds, Masses and Movements: Right Wing and Left Wing Macro Social Psychology - What are the characteristics that make a crowd different from a group? Are crowds any more emotional than groups or individuals? Are crowds any more manipulatable than groups? Are crowds any more destructive than groups or individuals? How do we account for our suspicions about crowds? Why do people join movements? What might exist to keep people from joining movements even when it may serve their self-inte...

Churchill asked his guest what he felt was the most important thing he had ever written. 'White Christmas,' was the reply. Churchill, perplexed, gave up and turned to someone else. It was only later that he was told that through a mix-up it was the composer Irving Berlin who had been invited to enjoy lunch and the wartime Prime Minister's company

Seminal essay from 1979 from Diane Elson arguing for the importance of Marx’s “Value Theory of Labour.” The essay was a product of debates within the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE). Full PDF of the essay also below. Note: As Soren Mau pointed out, more than two decades before Elson, Raya Dunayevskaya suggested that we should speak of the ‘value theory of labour’ rather than the ‘labour theory of value’. See 'The Logic and Scope of Capital, Volumes II and III' he...

 

Police are hunting the crooks who made off with sculptor Marcia Astors bronze creation of a stallion taken from the gardens of Forde Abbey near the village of Thorncombe in Dorset.

Discussed at Tuesday night’s meeting were two major infrastructure improvements to College Street, Water Street, Jefferson Parkway and the Mill Towns Trail, as well as a proposal to replace the

THE Central and West Fife Agricultural Society have donated the proceeds of one of their West Fife Show events to charity.

India News: The noted scholar examines how history is not only being misused but also how the right-wing ideology has been by moulded by the "fallacious idea that

Demand is constrained by the ability to produce goods. The more goods that an individual can produce, the more goods he can acquire. The same can be said for the economy at large because what drives an economy is not demand but rather the production of goods and services.

Harriet Martineau, British novelist, lecturer, abolitionist and theological thinker was born on this day, the 12th of June, in 1802.