A large part of the revolutionaries were anarcho-syndicalists. So a very different thing that directly opposes totalitarian regimes. These types of movements we

A large part of the revolutionaries were anarcho-syndicalists. So a very different thing that directly opposes totalitarian regimes. These types of movements were rather common in europe and have been brutally oppressed by both authoritarian socialists in Russia and China and fascists in Italy, Spain and Germany. Orwell‘s works are an expression of that. He was opposed of authoritarian socialism, fascism and so on, but supported democratic and libertarian socialist movements.