“You see, labor has nothing concrete of which to be despoiled. Its share of the wealth of the country consists of clothes and household furniture, with here and there, in very rare cases, an unencumbered home. But you have the concrete wealth, twenty-four billions of it, and the Plutocracy will take it away from you. Of course, there is the large likelihood that the proletariat will take it away first. Don’t you see your position, gentlemen? The middle class is a wobbly little lamb between a lion and a tiger. If one doesn’t get you, the other will. And if the Plutocracy gets you first, why
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George Carlin has a joke about it
Orwell believes the proletariat can ever only be manipulated. It is too burdenedsecuring its own biological necessities to educate itself, so it can only ever be used as an instrument by the other classes to secure plurality.
