[nortonham]

> Judging him on not being "properly" socialist or anti-imperialist or whatever is completely missing the point.

But there are people who put him on the pedestal. His claimed by the left, and western leftists love to argue over who is "more socialist" than the other. His time in Spain, books like Animal Farm and 1984...they're held up as examples of Orwell being a better leftist than others.