Actually Orwell was a socialist. He didn’t like communism which of course makes him pretty odd from our view point. But he saw a line between them and liked one but not the other
I know and probably knew THAT fact long before you ever did, since, as has always been my wont, when I find an author whose works I enjoy reading, I then read EVERYTHING that person has written! And I began reading Orwell ( 1984), when I was all of 14.