Who Is George Orwell A Socialist

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Eric Arthur Blair was a well-known journalist and novelist, in these pieces of literature he wrote he changed his name to George Orwell. George Orwell wrote many books, novels, and journals, George really did have a passion for writing and he loved doing it. George Orwell wrote in many different ways; he had some journals and article that were serious and full of facts, but he also wrote some books that were comical and full of satire. George Orwell was a very skillful writer during this time period; he wrote “Animal Farm” and also many different journals for London, England, these works by him expressed a lot about his views on the world which is why some people did not agree with his points.
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In the late 1920’s George Orwell considered himself as an anarchist (B.B.C), an anarchist is a person or belief that does not agree with an established rule or law (B.B.C). But in the early 1930’s George considered himself as a Socialist (B.B.C), a socialist is a person who has an economical theory where the distribution, exchange, and production should be made by the community as a team (B.B.C). George was against many different political views like he did not agree with the idea of communism and didn't like anyone that used this idea (B.B.C). So obviously George hated Joseph Stalin because he ran Russia and they are communist; he did go to Russia but he got kicked out for trying to revolt against the communist party (B.B.C), he also did not agree with the religious belief of Catholicism (Colls 10). In the late months of 1936 George Orwell went on a trip to Spain, and was revolting against Franco’s Nationalist (B.B.C). On his trip to Spain George did have some followers come with him too but he did not know them, these followers were Communist one of the communist was W.H.Auden (Colls 99). There reason for following George was to kill him so he would stop revolting against Stalin and communism (Colls).So once he figured out what they wanted to do George Orwell had to leave Spain, so he became Anti-Stalin (Colls

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