Thread by @robkhenderson

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937)

"the ugly fact that most middle-class Socialists, while theoretically pining for a classless society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments of social prestige."

Reflections on the diet and appearance of the working class

"If the English physique has declined, this is no doubt partly due to the fact that the Great War carefully selected the million best men in England and slaughtered them"

Orwell describes the two kinds of socialists

“So it is with all manual work; it keeps us alive, and we are oblivious of its existence...all of us owe the decency of our lives to poor drudges underground, blackened to the eyes, throats full of coal dust, driving their shovels forward with arms and belly muscles of steel”