He wasn’t a socialist… like at all. He may have written about anti-capitalism, and he may have called himself a socialist, but he was a member of the petty-bourgeoisie who benefitted from the exploitation of the proletarian class - predominately the foreign variety - and actively opposed socialists. Instead of going on a long rant about Orwell again on Lemmy (you might be able to find the other times we’ve talked about Orwell with a search) I’ll post a link to an article talking about him. (and a few other fakes)

https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2019/08/orwell-hitchens-and-hollow-self.html

Comrades don’t let comrades support Orwell.

Snitches get stitches.