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Originally Posted by TimMason
That's not a clarification: it's a statistic. Orwell was a socialist, said so often. Here he is :
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I'd love to carry this further, and maybe we will in another thread, but I'll just say that Orwell's 'socialism' as he clearly defines as 'his' was only socialist in the same way that capitalism is the same as neo-liberal capitalism. Orwell's socialism, as he proved in deed, was nearer to the anarcho syndicalist tradition in Spain (where he fought). He wasn't as interested in state, classical socialism that grew from the early labour movements (which he did see as dangerous and I'll find the essays to post here where he talks about the dangers of socialism) but more in the free-form nature of anarchism and syndicalism that grew strong during the Spanish Civil War (worker owned, community run etc).
We should have a thread on Orwell, because he's infinitely fascinating as a writer, essayist, satirist and as social commentator.