That’s the sort of argument that the Old Left had against Orwell and Koestler – that because the right also argued against the Soviet Union, that Orwell and Koestler must be closet rightists despite their leftist backgrounds. The point is you have to consider the content of the criticisms. The right hated the Soviet Union because it wasn’t capitalist. Orwell and Koestler had a far more legitimate critique – namely all the awful things Stalin’s Soviet Union was doing to its citizens.
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