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Orwell nailed the permanent hypocrisy of the status socialist. They preach equality, but they still want status. They sneer at old class privilege, then build a new version of it out of credentials, correct opinions, approved language, activist causes, and moral vanity. They don’t want a classless society. They want a society where their class is in charge and gets to call its own privileges compassion. You see the same thing today in Canada. The people who lecture working people about sacrifice are rarely the ones paying the real price. They love “equity” until it touches their neighbourhood, their job, their school, their retirement plan, or their social standing. Orwell understood the type perfectly: people who claim to love the common man, but quietly despise his habits, his speech, his politics, and his independence.