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> This line from the article seems to misrepresent Orwell...He makes it clear in his book that he initially had little understanding of the differences in ideol
by feedforward 2y ago
> This line from the article seems to misrepresent Orwell...He makes it clear in his book that he initially had little understanding of the differences in ideology among the various left-wing groups, and chose to join the anarchists rather arbitrarily.
The one misrepresenting Orwell is yourself, he joined the communist POUM, not the anarchists.
- TeaBrain 2y agoHe got a detail wrong, but I think this takes little away from his point. Orwell considered the possibility of joining several of the factions and his choice to join POUM was ultimately arbitrary. His choice to join was not due to a perfect personal alignment of his with the goals of POUM.
- akamaka 2y agoThanks for the correction. One thing I definitely don’t remember from the book is the alignment of all the groups. I checked again and what happened was that the POUM (independent communists) ended up fighting alongside the anarchists against the Soviet-aligned communists.