Orwell doesn't have much time for workers either. They're either the bleating sheep in Animal Farm or the powerless "proles" of 1984 who live in their hovels content with the endless supply of cheap gin and pornography that the Oceania regime provides.

When it was revealed that Orwell had been a police informer some of the literati of the Trot persuasion tried to rehabilitate him as discussed in this 2005 New Worker review makes clear:

https://londoncommunists.blogspot.com/2005/09/george-orwell-enigmatic-socialist.html

pip,pip,

H A R Philbv
(Col.ret'd)