We all raise against class-distinctions, but very few people seriously want to abolish them. Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be changed [. . .] So long as it is merely a question of ameliorating the worker’s lot, every decent person is agreed [. . .] But unfortunately you get no further than by merely wishing class-distinctions away. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has no efficacy unless you grasp what it involves. The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here am I, a typical member of the middle class. It is easy for me to say that I want get rid of class-distinctions, but nearly everything I think or do is a result of class-distinctions [. . .] I have got to alter myself so completely that at the end I should hardly be recognizable as the same person.

George Orvell “The Road to Wigan Pier” Part Two 10