I try not to be an Orwell defender, because fuck that guy, but his books are better/more radical than a lot of people give him credit for. In 1984 and Animal Farm the revolution was explicitly good and improved the quality of life for everyone, but thats usually shadowed by his critiques against "Stalinism" and cults of personality and police states.

Also Homage to Catelonia was one of my radicalizing texts, there was a fantastic awakening of leftist zeal in me when as he described the new revolutionary societies that were forming, its all very cool even if some of it is supposedly made up.