That's a very American perspective, of course, and I'm sure it looked different to Orwell as a British socialist in Atlee's England whose friends were all British socialists and who basically never interacted with Tories except via letters to the editor etc
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some of what you've said about his mindset [in assuming the right is not a relevant threat anymore and the only thing left to worry about is the left descending into totalitarianism] seems particularly strange though with how he must have felt about Franco still being in power.
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I suspect Tolkien's historian and medievalist background also played a role. He himself always identified as a sort of soft anarchist (& Numenor is explicitly a criticism of colonialism) but I suspect it imbued him with a certain cynicism some lefties would call complacency?
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Like Orwell's colleagues and his lesser imitators have always ultimately blamed the failures of leftist revolutions on the complacency of the People in not being enough like them, rarely on structural issues or policy failures. It's taken as a given The People Mobilized is a win.
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