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Not for any reasons a birdbrain like you can fathom.
Orwell very clearly states he is a Socialist because he has seen how bad capitalism is, nimrod.
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. For perhaps ten years past I have had some grasp of the real nature of capitalist society. In so far as I have struggle against the system, it has been mainly by writing books which I hoped would influence the reading public. One has got to be actively a Socialist, not merely sympathetic to Socialism, or one plays into the hands of our always-active enemies. George Orwell.
Give the exact, specific type of socialism that Orwell PERSONALLY espoused.
You Republican kook right wingers are such know-nothings. Here is Orwell in his own words:
It pays to actually read Orwell for oneself: "I am well aware that it is now the fashion to deny that Socialism has anything to do with equality. In every country in the world a huge tribe of party-hacks and sleek little professors are busy 'proving' that Socialism means no more than a planned state-capitalism with the grab-motive left intact. But fortunately there also exists a vision of Socialism quite different from this. The thing that attracts ordinary men to Socialism and makes them willing to risk their skins for it, the 'mystique' of Socialism, is the idea of equality; to the vast majority of people Socialism means a classless society, or it means nothing at all. And it was here that those few months in the militia were valuable to me. For the Spanish militias, while they lasted, were a sort of microcosm of a classless society. In that community where no one was on the make, where there was a shortage of everything but no privilege and no boot-licking, one got, perhaps, a crude forecast of what the opening stages of Socialism might be like. And, after all, instead of disillusioning me it deeply attracted me. The effect was to make my desire to see Socialism established much *more* actual than it had been before."
From chapter 8 of "Homage to Catalonia" (1938). It is from this book (really a memoir) that one gets perhaps the fullest picture of what attracted Orwell to socialism.
"One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New Yorker
Orwell had a very simplistic vision of socialism and had no means of integrating it into a vast multicultural society such as ours where it is an abject failure. I damn sure aint giving up what I've got to a maggot like you. Only an authoritarian governement could make me do it. A classless society is not possible in a society where so many people don't know and and maybe don't like each other.
Orwell's chief motivation and wisdom was always being opposed to authoritarianism. His support of socialism was just an off shoot of that, and his vision was limited and naive.
