Wednesday, January 17, 2018

“But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. These rich men were called capitalists. They were fat, ugly men with wicked faces, like the one in the picture on the opposite page. You can see he is dressed in a long black coat which was called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a stovepipe, which was called a top hat. This was the uniform of the capitalists, and no one else was allowed to wear it. The capitalists owned everything in the world, land, all the houses, all the factories , and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them, they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him, and take off his cap and address him as Sir. The chief of all the capitalists was called the King, and—“

George Orwell, 1984