Later on in the book he tries to set forth a fourth
> option. Socialism is the only cure for what ails the world, but most people
> are alienated from it. The solution? That old
> why-can't-we-all-just-get-along saw: "We are at a moment [1936] when it is
> desperately necessary for left-wingers of all complexions to drop their
> differences and hang together." Ho-hum. Which doesn't mean it's necessary
> to have all the answers, but if those are the best you can come up with,
> why bother?
David Friedman ,son of Milton and anarcho-capitalist says in his book *Machinery of Freedoom* that Orwell is among his favorite authors because GO is sympathetic to libertarianism and was influenced by von Hayek(cf. Collected Essays and Letters of George Orwell viii for his review of Hayek). Orwell also wrote favorably of James Burnham after his rightward turn (cf vol.iv of same).
Don't know why there is so much fuss, Orwell was a third rate novelist though he was an excellent essayist. I have never read anything as tedious as "Keep the Aspidistra Flying". 1984 was completely ripped off of *WE* by Zemyatin, a vastly superior novel. At least GO acknowledged it.
Sam Pawlett