[Fai Mao]

I do not think Orwell was a Socialist in the normal sense of the word.

[nopardons]

Oh yes he was and flirted with being a Commie, before his eyes were opened to how terrible the USSR was.

If the only books of his that you've read are ANIMAL FARM and 1984, you wouldn't know. But DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON and KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING would prove I'm correct.