revision preference src: He once wrote: " Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it ". <SEP> tgt: In his 1946 essay " Why I Write ", Orwell explains that the serious works he wrote since the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 39) were " written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism ".