Orwell wasn’t “against socialism.” He was a socialist, and saw social equity as a remedy against totalitarianism.

‘Every dictatorship has a Ministry of Truth’

Because the Leftists are calling themselves by the same name they CAN'T be doing what the authoritarians in Orwell's books did . . . even though EVERYONE can both see and hear them doing it? Oh . . . this is getting good!

But the problem is that every “democratic socialist” eventually goes full blown Communist