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The Road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
I started reading this at a friend's house because it was short. Found myself hooked.
I consider this to be Orwell's most important work.
For anyone who talks about British people benefitting from the Empire, for anyone who says all white people are descended from an aristocracy who stole their wealth from the rest of the world
For anyone who talks about "the patriarchy".
Read. This. Book.
Britain was built by a population of desperately poor men and women who scraped together a meagre second-world-level existence from the most grinding poverty imaginable. Women were not oppressed. They struggled equally and cooperatively with their husbands, just to get the family through the week.
The overwhelming number of white people weren't rich. They lived in sub-human conditions that would horrify you today, no matter what your skin colour. Only a tiny fraction of the population lived in any level of material comfort. So much so that the government realised it could barely raise an army of soldiers when the first world war came, because hardly anyone in the country was fit enough to run a mile.
The rich aristocracy were as isolated from the population of Britain as most billionaire oligarchs living in London are today.
I consider this to be Orwell's most important work.
For anyone who talks about British people benefitting from the Empire, for anyone who says all white people are descended from an aristocracy who stole their wealth from the rest of the world
For anyone who talks about "the patriarchy".
Read. This. Book.
Britain was built by a population of desperately poor men and women who scraped together a meagre second-world-level existence from the most grinding poverty imaginable. Women were not oppressed. They struggled equally and cooperatively with their husbands, just to get the family through the week.
The overwhelming number of white people weren't rich. They lived in sub-human conditions that would horrify you today, no matter what your skin colour. Only a tiny fraction of the population lived in any level of material comfort. So much so that the government realised it could barely raise an army of soldiers when the first world war came, because hardly anyone in the country was fit enough to run a mile.
The rich aristocracy were as isolated from the population of Britain as most billionaire oligarchs living in London are today.