Social injustice is pervasive from "summary" of The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The fact is that the average man's love of personal liberty and his desire to be free from the interference of government with his life are not primarily due to deep thought or to an intelligent understanding of the needs of society. They are due to the instinctive hatred of being bullied and of seeing others bullied. This is the feeling that has brought me to the coal-miners, and it is upon this that the whole spirit of socialism is founded. Socialism is not a mere political doctrine, but a way of life, a way of looking at the world. It is a protest against the injustices of the existing social order, against the tyranny of the strong over the weak, the rich over the poor, the employer over the employee. Socialism is not a dream of a utopia where all men will be equal, where there will be no more poverty or want or suffering. It is a practical means of securing for every man, woman, and child in the community the opportunity to live a decent, healthy, and happy life. It is a demand for social justice, for the right of every individual to a fair share of the good things of life. It is a plea for the recognition of the fact that no man can live to himself alone, that the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all. The evils of capitalism, of industrialism, of the profit system, are not due to the personal greed or selfishness of individual capitalists or industrialists. They are due to the nature of the system itself, to the fact that it is organized for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. The coal-miners are not exploited because the coal-owners are wicked men, but because they are working for a system that is based on the exploitation of one class by another. The whole structure of society, the whole fabric of our civilization, is built upon the foundation of social injustice. Everywhere we look, we see the same story repeated. In the factories, in the mines, on the farms, in the shops, in the offices, in the homes, we see the same struggle for existence, the same fight for a bare livelihood, the same inequalities of wealth and power. We see the strong oppressing the weak, the rich exploiting the poor, the employer tyrannizing over the employee. We see the same waste of human life, the same degradation of human personality, the same denial of human rights. We see the same
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