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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months agoHe was radicalized against the Soviets because they did not support the socialist revolution
Was this before or after he served as a British intelligence officer in colonial-era Burma?
lugal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was after. That also radicalized him towards class solidarity and socialism. He empathized with the suppressed indigenous peoples there and in the next step with the suppressed in his own country. He went to meet them and live with them as documented in this book The Road to Wigan Pier. Then, as a vaguely socialist, he went to Spain as documented in Homage to Catalonia. I read both books btw