The author seems to hate the rich more than he loves the poor. Orwell wrote: "The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does

The author seems to hate the rich more than he loves the poor. Orwell wrote: "The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders. ... Though seldom giving much evidence of affection for the exploited, he is perfectly capable of displaying hatred — a sort of queer, theoretical, in vacua hatred — against the exploiters. Hence the grand old Socialist sport of denouncing the bourgeoisie. It is strange how easily almost any Socialist writer can lash himself into frenzies of rage against the class to which, by birth or by adoption, he himself invariably belongs." – George Orwell, “The Road to Wigan Pier” (excerpt from Chapter 11)