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The Road to Wigan Pier with Angela Nagle

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What's the Difference Between Socialism and the Middle Class?

The typical socialist is not as tremulous old ladies imagine a ferocious looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youth, youthful snob, bolshevik, who, in five yeaars time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman catholicism. Or still more typically, a prim little man with a white collar job, usually a secret teetotaler, and ofton, ofton, with vegetarian leanings,. And above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting. This last type is surprisingly common in socialist circles of every shade. It has perhaps been taken over on block

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