No, he never gave up on it. I've read his entire body of work. Nobody with a brain cell working would read Road to Wigan Pier or Down and Out in London and think he was some sort of right winger or preaching of the dangers of left wing politics.
Weird, I remember reading him becoming a nihilist in regards to politics later in life. That it's all fucked.
He hated Bolshevism. Not left wing politics. Snowball the pig was an ardent socialist, and he was not only portrayed sympathetically, in the story his ideas were actually working and made life better for the farm.
The man took up arms against the right wing in Spain for goodness sakes.
I didn't say he hated left wing politics, I said he was criticizing the USSR and to which I should have expressed he hated totalitarianism. Which is why he fought against the fascist party in Spain after he fought the Soviet-backed communists there. He greatly loved freedom and his brand of socialism was class based and not race based as it metastasized in the 80's. I'm fairly certain he criticized race based socialism like that one guy during Occupy where he said race has no place in the movement. That's how it turned out on the farm, you got Karl Marx - who Snowball was supposed to be the allegory for I believe - and then you got the idiots taking up the mantle after - now I think Karl Marx was an idiot regardless, but eh - where they take the movement to mean what they want it to.
So you ended up with movements that was essentially socialism, but for race where status is redistributed based on your ethnicity. Which that snippet was about, it was about racial agitators seeking a redistribution of power in their ethnicity's favor. Much like we have to deal with now. Shit we wouldn't have to deal with if we just stopped talking about race and lived in a post-racial society.
Which phase? The self defense phase where they were literally used as a reason BY THE NRA to lobby for new gun control laws, which by the way, the right wing at the time was all for, or the new Black Panthers who's stupid asses were harassing left wing voters into voting for the candidate they were already going to vote for?
They still think they're Marxists so you tell me. I mean, Che Guevara had them pegged, but they still thought and think they're Marxists all the same. Just because they were being dumb idiots doesn't change their political affiliation. 2nd Amendment shit isn't exclusively right wing either, in fact a fair number of communists are for it until they're in power. A lot of people are for it until they're in power.
