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[[George Orwell]] wrote two books late in his life that are considered among the greatest of 20th Century English works:  [[1984]] and [[Animal Farm]].  Both have strongly anti-authoritarian and [[conservative]] principles.

[[George Orwell]] wrote two books late in his life that are considered among the greatest of 20th Century English works:  [[1984]] and [[Animal Farm]].  Both have strongly anti-authoritarian and [[conservative]] principles.

Orwell indisputably grew critical of his [[leftist]] ideological allies as he grew older.  However, he remained a democratic socialist in name, if not in beliefs.  It is suspected that he kept his public image in order to retain his influential position as a columnist for its leading publication, the ''Tribune''.  Moreover, his support of democratic socialism was based on [[conservative]] reasons:  he thought it would produce a wealthier society.

Orwell indisputably grew critical of his [[leftist]] ideological allies as he grew older.  However, he remained a democratic socialist in name, if not in beliefs.  It is suspected that he kept his public image in order to retain his influential position as a columnist for its leading publication, the ''Tribune''.  Moreover, his support of democratic socialism was based on [[conservative]] reasons:  he thought it would produce a wealthier society. Orwell was also a partriot: a Conservative principle. Orwell had been a member of the revolutionary socialist [[Independent Labour party]], which opposed [[British]] participation in [[World War II]], but left the ILP on the outbreak of war, and joined the civilian [[Home Guard]] in 1940.

Commentator Philip Thody writes:<ref>http://revel.unice.fr/cycnos/document.html?id=1391</ref>

Commentator Philip Thody writes:<ref>http://revel.unice.fr/cycnos/document.html?id=1391</ref>