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>Not sure Orwell had well defined political views at that point in his life. He was a bookfag and never a doctrinaire Marxist ideologue
Going out of his way to volunteer with the POUM instead of the Comintern's (and therefore USSR's) International Brigades suggests his political views were very well-defined. A lot of his critiques in Catalonia are being made from the left.

>His view of socialism was like that. A very rationalist, "common sense" English version of it (in contrast to the Russian version) that's supposed to be about fairness and decency
This is a lot closer to Hemingway's feelings on it whenever it comes up in For Whom the Bell Tolls.