On Socialism | George Orwell | The Road to Wigan Pier | *Philosophers, Explained* by Stephen Hicks

Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.
In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses George Orwell’s 1937 work The Road to Wigan Pier. Hicks focusses on Orwell’s thoughts on why socialism is not growing in England and what must be done to promote it.

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Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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