The 50th edition of animal farm has an essay by him that spells it out.
He’d fought on behalf of Socialism but became disillusioned when he saw US and UK Communists denying or accepting the horrors of Stalinism (later Mao and Che).
There are Communists in the West who want the existing culture (people and history) DEAD.
He fought in the Spanish civil war and wrote a book about it called Homage to Catalonia. And currently the Catalan separatist movement is in full swing, anfd being fueled by US tourist dollars, which you could call a soft revolution.