• lugal@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    4 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 his 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