George Orwell’s

political alignment

By Elisa, Mona and Cindy

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• George Orwell was a Democratic

socialist.

A Socialist did not claim that they could

make the world perfect, but they were

trying to improve it. He also argued that

if there were no more very rich and no

more very poor people, such a society

would still have a vast number of other

problems to solve, because a society

which is balanced in wealth, is not a

perfect society.” 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".

– ‘Why I Write (1946)• Orwell thought that all political theories

and ideologies - except socialism - are

hopeless and disillusioning.

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• Defined Orwell’s Socialism. I have seen wonderful

things and at last really

believe in Socialism,

which I never did before.” – a letter he

wrote from Barcelona,

8 th June 1937• Shaped his view of other political groups.

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expressed his hatred

of other political groups. Such as totalitarianism

and Communism

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According to Orwell, the

book reflects events leading

up to and during the Stalin

era before World War II.

Orwell was a critic of Joseph

Stalin and hostile to Moscow-

directed Stalinism.

Orwell was an anti-communist he was not on the side of traditional ruling class, neither so

in Animal Farm.

The pigs assume privileges and end up telling the other animals what to do and

eating the best food.

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Animalism, Communism, and Fascism are all illusions which are used by the pigs as a

means of satisfying their greed and lust for power.”

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