Orwell's ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : For example, Americans often confuse socialism with communism.
59% : For Orwell, both Nazism and Communism were totalitarian.
58% : Orwell did not specify in that passage what he meant by either totalitarianism or democratic socialism, but some of his other works clarify how he understood those terms.
57% : Orwell later summarized the purpose of his writing from roughly the Spanish Civil War onward: "Every line of serious work I have written since 1936 has been, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism."
54% : According to him, socialism requires "approximate equality of incomes (it need be no more than approximate), political democracy, and abolition of all hereditary privileges, especially in education."
54% : But in describing socialism, Orwell discusses more than economic inequality.
51% : What is democratic socialism?
50% : As a philosophy professor, I'm interested in the continuing relevance of Orwell's ideas, including those on totalitarianism and socialism.
50% : Both notions of democracy seem relevant to what Orwell means by democratic socialism.
50% : I believe Orwell's description of democratic socialism and his recognition that there are various forms socialism can take remain important today given that American political dialogue about socialism often overlooks much of the nuance Orwell brings to the subject.
49% : In his 1937 book "The Road to Wigan Pier," Orwell writes that socialism means "justice and liberty.
47% : Orwell's writings indicate that his preferred conception of socialism also requires "political democracy."
46% : Orwell elaborates on what he means by socialism in "The Lion and the Unicorn."
44% : For Orwell, democratic socialism is a political order that provides social and economic equality while also preserving robust personal freedom.

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