Orwell was a naive, idealistic Socialist, who hated almost every real Socialist he met, and every Socialist government he encountered, and was compulsively honest about the corruption, hypocrisy, and murderous flaws in the system in practice.
His only real failing was he still hung onto the naive dream that there somehow existed a form that it would work. And this was born mainly from horror at the state of the poor in his era rather than anything else, and the feeling that no other system than enlightened Socialism could help them.
If he saw the comparative wealth of the poor under Capitalism today, I doubt he'd still be a Socialist.
He was basically a insider whistleblower at a time that it was fashionable among public figures to praise and propagandise for the Soviet Union. He did not believe in "by any means necessary", and was in fact a deeply sentimental patriot, who had no love for Globalism.
Orwell was a naive, idealistic Socialist, who hated almost every real Socialist he met, and every Socialist government he encountered, and was compulsively honest about the corruption, hypocrisy, and murderous flaws in the system in practice.
His only real failing was he still hung onto the naive dream that there somehow existed a form that it would work. And this was born mainly from horror at the state of the poor in his era rather than anything else, and the feeling that no other system than enlightened Socialism could help them.
If he saw the comparative wealth of the poor under Capitalism today, I doubt he'd still be a Socialist.
He was basically a insider whistleblower at a time that it was fashionable among public figures to praise and propagandise for the Soviet Union. He did not believe in "by any means necessary", and was in fact a deeply sentimental patriot, who had no love for Globalism.