Current Events > From the Ministry of Irony: Orwell maintained a list of suspected communists.

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In 1949, shortly before he died, the English author George Orwell prepared a list of notable writers and other people he considered to be unsuitable as possible writers for the anti-communist propaganda activities of the Information Research Department, a secret propaganda organisation of the British state under the Foreign Office. A copy of the list was published in The Guardian in 2003 and the original was released by the Foreign Office soon after

The notebook contained columns with names, comments and various markings. Typical comments were: Stephen Spender "Sentimental sympathiser... Tendency towards homosexuality"; Richard Crossman "Too dishonest to be outright F. T."; Kingsley Martin "Decayed liberal. Very dishonest"; and Paul Robeson "very anti-white. [Henry] Wallace supporter".

I never thought Orwell would have been a believer in Thought Crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell%27s_list

Damn, I guess that's why they say never meet your heroes