Too bad for them, more and more "Proles" are waking up.
"If there was hope, it must lie in the Proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated."
Road to Wigan Pier.
Even as an avowed socialist his critique of socialism was scathing. There's nothing more devastating to socialism than the idea of the upper middle class woman socialist being disgusted by the dirty, smelly, miner in person while venerating his status in society at meetings.
Too bad for them, more and more "Proles" are waking up.
"If there was hope, it must lie in the Proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated."
-1984 (George Orwell)
Road to Wigan Pier.
Even as an avowed socialist his critique of socialism was scathing. There's nothing more devastating to socialism than the idea of the upper middle class woman socialist being disgusted by the dirty, smelly, miner in person while venerating his status in society at meetings.