Famous People You Might Not Know Were Socialists

stains0nthemem0ry:

thepeacockangel:

dankbeyondnecropsy:

aspergianmind:

dearnonacepeople:

• Mark Twain
• Helen Keller
• Oscar Wilde
• Albert Einstein 
• The Writer of The American Pledge of Allegiance
• Pablo Picasso
• George Orwell
• Nelson Mandela
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• W E B Du Bois
• H. G. Wells
• Malcolm X
• George Bernard Shaw
• John Stuart Mill
• Ghandi 
• Jack London 
• Malala Yousafzai

George Orwell- “Everything i have written since (The Spanish Civil War) has been written against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism”

fuck Ghandi though

Fuck Orwell too, misogynist prick

Fuck you, go read 1984.

“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell: A misogynist prick and government informant

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2003/sep/25/orwells-list/