• CancerMancer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      He did not side with police, he just didnt like the bougie people joining the cause treating it like a trendy counter culture. To paint the picture a little better, in “The Road to Wigan Pier” Orwell said the following:

      One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Does it count if I come from a working-class family and did nothing career-wise with my college education except bury myself in government-assisted student debt

  • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Orwell was endlessly interesting. A man of note that came through Eton college without right wing leanings.

    His journalistic review of the state of the pit workers, their families and their economic plight in the north of England, in ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ was very eye-opening.

    I have Homage to Catalonia yet to read, but he was clearly impassioned, empathetic and willing, in his relatively short life.