Famous socialists: • Eugene V. Debs • Albert Einstein • Mother Jones • Martin Luther King Jr. • Helen Keller • Rosa Luxemburg • Nelson Mandela • George Orwell • Pablo Picasso • Bertrand Russell • Upton Sinclair • Mark Twain • Malcolm X Who am I missing?
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Replying to @shanepriestley3 @philosophrob
he was anti-Stalin but he was a pretty huge socialist
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He literally fought with anarchists in the Spanish Civil War
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No dumbass he was a foreign volunteer with the Workers' Party of Communist Unification and it was the single biggest defining event of his life, read Homage to Catalonia
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If you're going to use someone's biography to criticize them you need to put the biography in order His burnout from his time in Burma in the 20s driving him to go back home and spend several years bumming around is when he developed his leftist politics
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Replying to @arthur_affect @shanepriestley3 and
Which is then how he became a left-wing journalist and activist in the 30s, which eventually led him to volunteer with the POUM in the Spanish Civil War
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He wrote about all of this, in detail (in order: Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia)
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