As well as the point made by the others, part of why he opposed (big C) Communism was that they were counterrevolutionary and suppressed the actual socialist re

As well as the point made by the others, part of why he opposed (big C) Communism was that they were counterrevolutionary and suppressed the actual socialist revolution that was happening in Spain at the time. In short, the Stalinists were too right-wing for him. Homage to Catalonia does make that clear. There's no sense, in any of Orwell's later writing, that he renounced socialism and plenty that affirmed his socialist ideas. Orwell stated in one of those works (Why I Write, 1946), that every word he wrote since 1936 was for democratic socialism, and the ending of Animal Farm, for instance, ultimately shows the communist pigs being no different from the capitalist humans (something that the CIA latched onto when they financed the 1948 animated film version, and so they had the ending changed).