I mean he went to an actual currently existing anarchist project and lived among them, enjoying his time there enough that he then decided to put his life on the line fighting fascists to protect it. He then came away from the failure with the opinion, basically, "That system was pretty sick, we should keep doing that."
He wasn't great for a lot of reasons, but he definitely wasn't a fascist.
Orwell was a crypto fascist cosplaying a socialist.
Posh prick. I mean, I can understand why he was upset after what he saw in Spain, but damn did he handle it poorly.
I mean he went to an actual currently existing anarchist project and lived among them, enjoying his time there enough that he then decided to put his life on the line fighting fascists to protect it. He then came away from the failure with the opinion, basically, "That system was pretty sick, we should keep doing that."
He wasn't great for a lot of reasons, but he definitely wasn't a fascist.
nah