Orwell was a socialist mate, most definitely his books were influenced by the Trotsky a revolution betrayed but nah he wasn't communist in the sense we think about it today.
Good point you raised though.
Probably not on that final one.
I think he probably was a communist though, and saw himself as a Trotskyist. He went beyond Trotsky's revolution betrayed (an excellent book) but I was always of the view Trotsky would have moved in a similar direction had he not been murdered.
Like the character in Animal Farm of Major is Lenin, and Snowball is Trotsky, and they are both positive characters.
Orwell is a great writer. In all honesty I doubt Musk knows the first thing about Orwell really.
