There is no source for the quote supposedly being from "George Orwell" (real name Eric Arthur Blair), although the quote is indeed true.

Here is a sourced quote from Blair:

"The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects."

• Eric Arthur Blair, "Why I Write," Gangrel (Summer 1946)

Blair fought on the side of the communist Workers' Party of Marxist Unification in the Spanish Civil War, against Franco and the conservatives, and against the Church and Christianity.

Note: Blair died in 1950, i.e. four years after this quote, and there is no evidence that he ever "recanted" his long-held "democratic socialist" (and essentially communist) ideology.

Commence the downvotes for truth.

There is no source for the quote supposedly being from "George Orwell" (real name Eric Arthur Blair), although the quote is indeed true.

Here is a sourced quote from Blair:

"The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects."

• Eric Arthur Blair, "Why I Write," Gangrel (Summer 1946)

Blair fought on the side of the

Note: Blair died in 1950, i.e. four years after this quote, and there is no evidence that he ever "recanted" his long-held socialist (and essentially communist) ideology.

Commence the downvotes for truth.

There is no source for the quote supposedly being from "George Orwell" (real name Eric Arthur Blair), although the quote is indeed true.

Here is a sourced quote from Blair:

"The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects."

• Eric Arthur Blair, "Why I Write," Gangrel (Summer 1946)

Note: Blair died in 1950, i.e. four years after this quote, and there is no evidence that he ever "recanted" his long-held socialist/communist ideology.

Commence the downvotes for truth.