"The one thing that never arrives is equality." - George Orwell
"....one of the chief difficulties of the Socialist movement—the fact that the word “Socialism” means something quite different to a working man from what it means to a middle-class Marxist. To those who actually have the destiny of the Socialist movement in their hands, virtually everything that a manual worker means when he says “Socialism” is either irrelevant or heretical....the manual workers in a machine civilization have certain characteristics forced upon them by the circumstances in which they live: loyalty, improvidence, generosity, hatred of privilege. It is out of these that they evolve their vision of a future society, so that the mystique of proletarian Socialism is the idea of equality. This is a very different vision from that of the middle-class Socialist who accepts Marx as his prophet—literally a prophet, a tipster who not only tells you which horse to back, but also provides the reason why the horse didn’t win."
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