Comment on Human Evil and Muddled Thinking

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:16:01 GMT

The Republicans in general and anarchists in particular should not be conflated with the communists; communists gradually and somewhat steadily took over the leftist side from being a tiny minority at the outset of the war to being in control of a lost cause.

Orwell's unit was almost all anarchists. The communists were just one group against the fascists, his propaganda is pro-Republican generally and pro-anarchist in particular, so pro-communist is not the best description.

...on occasions he obviously relays the communist propaganda as a complete dupe. On the whole, as a propagandist for his favored side...

Fighting among anarchist allies of communists and doing as the anarchists do, until the communists turn on them and kill them, does not make him associated with communism in a very important way and especially not with Communism.

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