He had little love for the power politics and mass bureaucratic parties of the twentieth century. In this sense he was completely and gloriously out of time and out of place. But for all that there was something essentially timeless about his beliefs. For Orwell the essential object of socialism was the establishment of justice and liberty. This simple formula had somehow been lost in the sterile godless world of official scientific socialism - in both its fabian and marxist varieties.
Socialists have, so to speak, presented their case wrong side foremost.
They have never made it sufficiently clear that the essential aims of socialism are justice and liberty. Of course much of this was unfair. And for Orwell the object of socialism is to bring out and accentuate the innate decency of the common people. In 1984 we see the final triumph of the totalitarian ethic. The erstwhile rebels, Winston and Julia, are converted, at the hands of the thought police, into cringing lovers of Big Brother.