In retrospect, George Orwell's support of "democratic socialism" seems counter to his anti-totalitarian stance, but he lived through the rise of fascism in academia and the obvious places in Europe, while at the same time, the Soviets and their doctrine weren't as well known by most Westerners. Mao, for example, had just barely begun his "great leap forward" when Orwell passed. George was also an "anti-Stalinist", something obvious in Animal Farm. Leninists, Trotskyites and so forth.
It's all confusing to a guy like me who paints all totalitarianism with the same brush. After all, what do I care if my torturer and murderer is a fascist, a socialist, or a Buddhist, an artist, or anything else? A strong people, armed to the fucking teeth with effective modern weaponry, and indomitable in spirit, well organized, with proper values - those peoples will never suffer tyranny. If I had to choose between being a victim of a massacre vs. engaging in war, I'll choose war every single time. Not sure how Orwell might have thought on the subject, but I imagine he'd have some sympathy for that mindset, even if he'd be a fan of weapons-control laws or some such.