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A review by elaineruss
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
5.0
What a great book. An instant favourite. If you've any interest in social history or our political systems it's a must read. In fact it could have been written yesterday to be fair.
As one of the other reviews mentions below, I think it's strength lies in it's focus, not on the outliers of society, not on the completely impoverished, but on those who have been working solidly all their lives and who have helped maintain a society that is designed to keep them at "their level". Essentially, the majority of us, the working classes.
Occasionally the narrative is lost as the author gets caught up in his explanations of socialism but I never once tired of it.
Truly a worthy read (in the most positive sense) and as relevant today, in this divided Britian, as it ever was I imagine.
As one of the other reviews mentions below, I think it's strength lies in it's focus, not on the outliers of society, not on the completely impoverished, but on those who have been working solidly all their lives and who have helped maintain a society that is designed to keep them at "their level". Essentially, the majority of us, the working classes.
Occasionally the narrative is lost as the author gets caught up in his explanations of socialism but I never once tired of it.
Truly a worthy read (in the most positive sense) and as relevant today, in this divided Britian, as it ever was I imagine.