{"id":376,"date":"2023-06-02T22:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2023-06-02T22:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T22:50:03","slug":"a-little-more-on-the-road-to-wigan-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"A Little More on the Road to Wigan Pier&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"odysee-iframe\" width=\"560\" height=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/wigan-pier-addendum:9\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>After reading a few reactions to my review of George Orwell&#8217;s <em>Road to Wigan Pier<\/em>, it looked like I was a little bit unclear about Orwell&#8217;s position on socialism.  I&#8217;m aware that he never denounced socialism as an ideology.  However, the issue that becomes painfully clear when reading <em>Wigan Pier<\/em> is that he really had no clear idea of what socialism was or what it meant.  With that in mind, I thought I&#8217;d make a quick video explaining this point a bit more clearly, so I hope this helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read my review <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/wire\/review-orwells-road-wigan-pier\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading a few reactions to my review of George Orwell&#8217;s Road to Wigan Pier, it looked like I was a little bit unclear about Orwell&#8217;s position on socialism. I&#8217;m aware that he never denounced socialism as an ideology. However, the issue that becomes painfully clear when reading Wigan Pier is that he really had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,2],"tags":[69,37,112,72,113,81],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-economics","category-political","category-video-link","tag-book-review","tag-economics","tag-george-orwell","tag-politics","tag-road-to-wigan-pier","tag-socialism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/books-25.jpg?fit=638%2C235&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}