Question: Was George Orwell or Hunter S. Thompson a journalist who supported democratic socialism?
Context: Beatrice Inez Lisette (Paget) Holden (21 November 1903- 30 May 1974) was a British writer and Bohemian social figure and journalist, also known for her association with George Orwell.  Born at Wellesbourne, Warwickshire to Wilfred Millington Holden (of the family listed in Burke's Landed Gentry 1952 edition as 'Holden of Bromson', a branch of the family of 'Holden of Hawton and Sibdon'; he served as a Lieutenant in the Bihar Light Horse and 15th Hussars) and Beatrice Mary Byng Paget (the daughter of Herbert Byng Paget, of Darley House, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, of the family listed in Burke's Landed Gentry as 'Paget of Loughborough'), with an elder brother, Wilfred Herbert, born in 1902, she was a cousin of the twins Celia Mary and Mamaine, who became Arthur Koestler's second wife.  Her first memory was her father shooting at- and missing- her mother; their relationship was a fraught one, as was Holden's own relationship with her mother, who was considered to be the second best horsewoman in England.  She kept fifteen chargers, but although her extravagant nature allowed her to visit the Ritz when in London, her daughter did not benefit from it.  According to Bluemel (in 'George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics', which devotes considerable attention to Holden), Holden's status as 'a dropout from the gentry class who worked as both factory hand and intellectual' is a contributing factor in the value of her work both generally speaking and for feminist scholars. Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945.  According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.  Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War.  The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror.  In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described "Animal Farm" as a satirical tale against Stalin (""un conte satirique contre Staline""), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), wrote that "Animal Farm" was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole". Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic.  His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–50), either under his own name or, more usually, under his pen name George Orwell.  Orwell was a prolific writer on topics related to contemporary English society and literary criticism, whom the British newsweekly "The Economist" in 2008 declared "perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture."  His non-fiction cultural and political criticism constitutes the majority of his work, but Orwell also wrote in several genres of fictional literature. Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement.  Born in Louisville, Kentucky, to a middle-class family, Thompson had a turbulent youth after the death of his father left the family in poverty.  He was unable to formally finish high school as he was incarcerated for 60 days after abetting a robbery.  He subsequently joined the United States Air Force before moving into journalism.  He traveled frequently, including stints in California, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, before settling in Aspen, Colorado, in the early 1960s. Socialism in Hong Kong is a political trend taking root from Marxism imported to Hong Kong and China in the late 1910s and early 1920s.  Notions of socialism have taken many forms, including Communism, Trotskyism and democratic socialism, with the communists being the most dominant faction due to the influence of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on the Mainland.  The "traditional leftists" became the largest Beijing-loyalist forces in the post-war decades which had an uneasy relationship with the colonial authorities.  As the Communist Party of China adopted economic reform from 1978 and the pro-Beijing faction became increasingly conservative, the socialist agenda has been slowly taken up by the liberal-dominated pro-democracy camp today. Socialism in India is a political movement founded early in the 20th century, as a part of the broader Indian independence movement against the colonial British Raj.  It grew quickly in popularity as it espoused the causes of India's farmers and labourers against the "zamindars", princely class and landed gentry.  Socialism shaped the principle economic and social policies of the Indian government after independence until the early 1990s, when India moved towards a more market-based economy.  However, it remains a potent influence on Indian politics, with a large number of national and regional political parties espousing democratic socialism. George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell.  Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell.  No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found. Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world.  All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what ""socialism"" means.  Statistically, most of these parties advocate either democratic socialism, social democracy, or even Third Way as their ideological position.  Many Socialist Parties have explicit connections to the labour movement and trade unions. See also Socialist International, list of democratic socialist parties and organizations and list of social democratic parties.  A number of affiliates of the Trotskyist Committee for a Workers' International also use the name "Socialist Party". The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the British writer George Orwell, first published in 1937.  The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II.  The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism.  Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism, but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents.
Answer: George Orwell