He's certainly not a socialist, but Trump and co. are right that socialists are generally less unhappy with Biden than with Trump, and many of them are sufficie

He's certainly not a socialist, but Trump and co. are right that socialists are generally less unhappy with Biden than with Trump, and many of them are sufficiently less unhappy to think it's worth voting for him. And I think you can infer Orwell's position enough from this essay itself - he is concerned about "the liberal tradition" being the last bulwark against worldwide fascism just one sentence before criticising England's liberal tradition for not being willing to actively stand up to evil because that tradition believes good will win out because good is good. Liberalism is hardly sufficient, but it's necessary. (Another way of putting this: Orwell is not an accelerationist. You can see from this essay that he's quite concerned with the material conditions of the working class in a realistic way, and the idea that they should get worse so that the people will revolt is neither convincing nor appealing to him.)