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The Road to Wigan Pier

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The Road to Wigan Pier

Auteur(s): George Orwell
Narrateur(s): Michael Obiora
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George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time.

Orwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in his later works and novels and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.

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I didn't enjoy it at all. It's mostly because I disagree wholeheartedly with the message Mr. Orwell is pushing here. He contrasts Socialism with Facism. This is, in itself, a fallacy. The opposite of Socialism is capitalism. Communism is the opposite Facism. Socialism requires having government control the fruits of everyone's labour and force charity. I am not opposed to charity but I am opposed to forcing successful people to spend their earnings as someone else sees fit. Socialism is...and always has been...tyranny. Society needs safety nets but freedom is more important than ANYTHING in any democracy or democratic republic.
I find it ironic that in his book "1984" he demonstrates the problems with Socialism as in how it leads to destruction of the individual.
This book was disappointing only in it's narrative.

It's not 1984

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