Don’t know the answer. Orwell was an interesting fella. In Homage to Catalonia I couldn’t figure out who the bad guys. I’ll trained, supplied and led army he joined. If that shot in the neck killed him he wouldn’t have written the book. That includes Animal Farm & 1984. A Socialist who knew the government would lie through it’s teeth was still a Socialist.
Animal Farm & 1984 were HIllary’s favorite books when she was growing up.
In Homage to Catalonia I couldn’t figure out who the bad guys.
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The answer was ‘D. All of the above.’ Usually a safe default answer in the Spanish Civil War, especially on the Red side.
Orwell joined with a Trotskyite faction, POUM, with whom Trotsky had issues because the left is always cannibalizing itself. Later, Stalin’s influence was so overwhelming that those Moscow backed factions tried to liquidate the Trotskyites, who were caught between the Nationalists and the Redder-Than-You-Pinko Reds of the government and USSR’s hmmm... I’m going to call them ‘NGOs’. That murderous treachery was the event that crystallized Orwell’s anti-Statist thought, and led to Animal Farm and all the rest.