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sympathized deeply with their goals BUT opposed intellectualized socialism as deeply dehumanizing
Then there is:
Then there is:
*Orwell begins his critique on class and socialism in ''The Road to Wigan Pier'' [http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2004/07/class-and-empire-george-orwells-road_01.html]
*Orwell begins his critique on class and socialism in ''The Road to Wigan Pier'' [http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2004/07/class-and-empire-george-orwells-road_01.html]
And this nuanced view:
*In the 1930s revolutionary socialists and communists were quite a bit more mainstream in English and American intellectual life than they are today. Orwell knew their arguments intimately, and sympathized deeply with their goals. Indeed, the first half of The Road To Wigan Pier is a blistering attack on the harsh working and living conditions of the English working class of his day. And yet he felt that intellectualized socialism, with its emphasis on absolute mechanization and total efficiency, was somehow deeply dehumanizing. [ibid]