Orwell was an anti-Communist, though especially anti Stalinist. He fell into the POUM, he didn't choose them, "I knew that I was serving in something called the

Orwell was an anti-Communist, though especially anti Stalinist. He fell into the POUM, he didn't choose them, "I knew that I was serving in something called the POUM. (I had only joined the POUM militia rather than any other because I happened to arrive in Barcelona with ILP papers), but I did not realize that there were serious differences between the political parties." He actually said "As far as my purely personal preferences went I would have liked to join the Anarchists." After the Stalinists illegalized the POUM, killed and tortured Orwell's friends and tried to kill him, forcing him flee Spain, his view on Communism grew ever more dim, and after that he grew more strongly anti-Communist than his earlier anti-Fascism.