Orwell remained a socialist until his dying day. In his preface to Animal Farm he wrote that "for the past ten years I have been convinced that the demolition of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the Socialist movement."
In 1947, Orwell wrote "every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it."