People know that George Orwell literally fought against fascism, right?

Like travelled to Spain to volunteer fighting under the red and black flags of the anarcho-socialists, right?

That his “Animal Farm” is a socialist critique of authoritarian Communism, right?
Next time a Trump supporter wants to use Orwell maybe just read some Orwell expressing his own political journey to them...

“First I spent five years in an unsuitable profession (the Indian Imperial Police, in Burma)...
... and then I underwent poverty and the sense of failure. This increased my natural hatred of authority and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had given me some understanding of the nature of imperialism: ...
... but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate political orientation. Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc…. The Spanish War and other events in 1936–37 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.”

-George Orwell
Yes. “1984”, “Animal Farm”, “Homage to Catalonia” George Orwell.

*you should read him*
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