I think all of this says a lot more about the people who try to write about Orwell than it does about Orwell. He was not exactly a "both sides have their merits

I think all of this says a lot more about the people who try to write about Orwell than it does about Orwell. He was not exactly a "both sides have their merits" sort of person. The guy literally joined a militia to throw grenades at fascists. You only find contraditions in his life if you try to apply tests of ideological purity rather than trying to meet him where he was.