Originally Posted by
life on mars
Orwell bless him ,certainly believed in policing lol
""Orwell*self-identified*as a democratic socialist, but his sympathy didn’t extend to communists. In 1949, he compiled a*list*of artists he suspected of having communist leanings and passed it along to his friend, Celia Paget, who worked for the UK’s Information Research Department. After the war ended, the branch was tasked with distributing anti-communist propaganda throughout Europe. Orwell's list included Charlie Chaplin and a few dozen other actors, writers, academics, and politicians.*""