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That's the funniest part. Right wingers who hate socialism quoting a socialist.
Orwell was a socialist but he had struggles fitting into any of the categories available during his own day. He'd probably have the same kind of problems these days.
He was driven by a strong sense of social justice that sometimes clouded his other senses.
It's obvious that he wished for nothing more than the idea that there was a clear-cut enemy to fight against, like in 1984. Good, and evil. A merciless, all-encompassing totalitarian government, and the innocent citizens trampled by its force. But that was never really the case. Both the left and the right were full of violent totalitarians in his era. Even he himself entertained violent and totalitarian ideas.
Nobody could escape it during the madness of the WW2 era. All you could do, really, was to join one group of pirates, to fight another.