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I do think Orwell understood capitalism fairly well, the problem was, he assumed that all systems would behave exactly the same way as capitalism, or even "worse" somehow. As always with anti-communists, his work was entirely projection.
Honestly it's just because we're too close to the history. It's Dante's Inferno but for children where a large portion of the characters are just personal grievances the author has with their political contemporaries. It's not even a good point, it's just a hate boner for Stalin which essentially buys into the cult of personality anyway.